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Representative men and Ironies, 

Quincy, Illinois. 




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THE EARLY PIONEERS. 



A BOOK OF BIOGRAPHY for the Quincy of to-day, the story of the lives of the 
representative men of 1899, would be incomplete without suitable reference to the 
representative men of yesterday, those who contributed so largely towards making 
this city one of the most progressive and prosperous places in the entire country. Of 
those who have passed away many were eminent in the councils of the state and nation. 
Ford, Carlin and Wood were governors of Illinois; Young, Browning and Richardson 
served with distinction in the United States Senate; Morgan became a Major-General in 
the war of the rebellion; Singleton and Anderson were prominent in the House of 
Representatives. Of the early pioneers a most interesting book could be written. Ex-Gov. 
John Wood, the founder of Quincy, first visited this locality in the spring of 1821. In the 
fall of the following year he built a log cabin near the foot of Delaware street, the first 
house on the present site of the cit_v. Major Jeremiah Rose, with his family, resided with 
him for some time. Willard Keyes, who came here in 1S.Z4, built the second cabin. There 
were also here previous to 1826, Judge Henry H. Snow, George W. Berrian, Earl Pierce, 
Daniel I^isle, Levi Wells, Levi Hadley, Joshua Streeter, Asher Anderson, Daniel Whipple, 
Peter Journey, Samuel Stone, Silas Brooks, Rufus Brown and Robert Tillson. Asher 
Anderson opened the first store in Quincy, in 1826, and Robert Tillson and Charles Holmes 
the second store, in 1828. D. G. Whitney, Richard S. Green and John W. McFadon were 
also among the earliest merchants, and John E. Jeffries built the first hotel, the old Land 
Office Hotel. Amzi C. Root and Timothy Rogers were among the early wagon makers; 
Adam Schmitt and Frederick W. Jansen the first cabinet makers; Anton Delabar the first 
brewer; Michael Mast and J. P. Bert the first merchant tailors. Of those who located 
here previous to 1834 were John McDade, Levi B. Allen, N. Pease, N. Summers, Charles 
Brown, Joseph N. Ralston, Archibald Williams, Harrison Dills, Francis C. Moore, Lorenzo 
Bull, James D. Morgan, Edward Wells, Henry Asbury, Joel Benton, William Dickhut, 
John L. Moore. Others who came in the earlier days were C. M. Pomroy, U. S. Penfield, 
Amos Green, John Wheeler, Thomas Jasper, James M. Pitman, James Adams, S. M. Bartlett, 
J. K. VanDoorn, H. V. Sullivan, Allen and Enoch Comstock, Henry Root, Charles A. 
Savage, John Byrd Young, Charles H. Bull, C. A. Warren, George Adams, R. S. Benneson, 
Thomas Pope, H. F. J. Ricker, E. K. Stone, James Arthur, B. I. Chatten, N. Bushnell, 
Thomas Redmond, Charles Maertz, Paul Konantz, A. C. Root, L. Kingman, Leonard 
Schmitt, S. P. Church, Wm. T. Taylor, Wm. Dickhut, James T. Baker, Dr. Michael 
Doway, Sylvester Thayer, Samuel Holmes, Ebenezer Moore, Enoch Conyers. 

It was on the foundation laid by these men that this prosperous and beautiful city has 
been built. Nearly all of them have passed away, leaving honored names and a record of 
earnest effort faithfully performed. Some of them are still living to enjoy with the men 
of to-day the abundant harvest of their early planting. They have witnessed the gradual 
development of Quincy until it has become the metropolis of the central Mississippi 
Valley, and of the representative men of the Quincy of to-day none are more highly 
honored than the early pioneers. 



Compiled and Published 

BY 

QuiNCY, Illinois. 
1899. 



REPRESENTATIVE BUSINESS MEN. 



In the active business life of Mr. Lorenzo Bull 
is embraced the history of Quincy almost from 
the beginning, reaching back as it does more 
than sixty-six years. With the early develop- 
ment of the city and with its growth and prog- 
ress he has been closely identified, contributing 
very largely towards making Quincy one of the 



stitutions. he is also one of the founders and 
most generous supporters. In term of years his 
active business experience exceeds that of any 
other resident of Quincy, and his unfailing judg- 
ment of men and events, his rare foresight and 
his comprehensive grasp of conditions and sit- 
uations, have made him a recognized leader in 




MR. LOREPJZO BULL. 



most prosperous and progressive cities of the 
west. While he was one of the founders of the 
great banking business of which he was for 
nearly forty years the head, he is also one of the 
founders of the street railway and the water 
works systems, he was an important factor in 
the early railway developments of this section 
of the west, and has also been identified with 
other public and private business enterprises 
which have been of paramount importance to 
the city at large. At one time, about the year 
1865, he was the president of five different busi- 
ness corporations. Of many of the essential 
charitable and philanthropic movements and in- 



this community from the first. Mr. Bull was 
born in Hartford, Conn., March 21, 1819, and is 
a direct descendant of the Puritans, his ances- 
tors on both sides having been of the party who, 
under the leadership of the Rev. Thomas 
Hooker, settled Hartford, Conn., in 1634. His 
educational advantages were limited, being con- 
fined to the district schools, but an excellent 
fund of general knowledge was crowded into 
his earlier years. When fourteen years of age 
he decided to come west, locating in Quincy 
May 11, 1833, the journey occupying more than 
a month. Dependent entirely on his own efforts 
for support, he secured a position in the office 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



of Judge Henry H. Snow, who then held most 
of the county offices, being at one time re- 
corder, clerk of the circuit court, clerk of the 
county commissioner's court, judge of probate, 
notary public and justice of the peace. On a 
salary of $6 per month for the first year and $10 
per month the second year, the young clerk 
kept almost all of the records and prepared 
nearly all of the papers for these various offices. 
At the age of sixteen years he secured a situa- 
tion in the general store of Holmes, Brown & 
Co., at that time the leading mercantile firm of 
this section, and he remained in this store 
through the various changes in ownership — S. & 
S. Holmes, Holmes & Co., Holmes & Wood — 
until 1844. It was then that he formed a part- 
nership with his brother under the firm name of 
L. & C. H. Bull, a business title that has been 
continued for more than half a century. The 
new firm opened a store for the sale of hard- 
ware and crockery, succeeding to the former 
location of Holmes & Wood. In 1S49 they built 
the building now occupied by Clark & Morgan, 
adding to their stock agricultiu'al machinery 
and farming implements, then first being intro- 
duced. Quincy was tor many years the market 
for a wide extent of territory on both sides of 
the river, and their store enjoyed a large and 
steadily increasing patronage. In 1861 they sold 
out their mercantile business to engage in bank- 
ing, at the corner of Fifth and Maine streets. 
The stability of the banking house of L. & C. H. 
Bull was never questioned. Through periods of 
general business depression, panics and com- 
mercial revulsions that swept over the countyv 
from time to time, the business of this bank 
steadily increased under the wise and conserva- 
tive management of Mr. Bull and his associate 
officers, until in 1893 it was reorganized under 
state charter as the State Savings, Loan and 
Trust Company, with a capital of $300,000. Mr. 
Bull was the first president of the reorganized 
bank and continued in that office until the con- 
solidation with the First National Bank last 
January, when he relinquished the cares of the 
position and withdrew from active business. 
Under his administration the present bank 
building, one of the finest in the entire West, 
was built, the assets of the bank had been in- 
creased to over $3,000,000, and it had become one 



of the leading banking houses of the country. 
Mr. Bull was one of the founders of the street 
railway company and was the president for 
about twenty years. He is also one of the early 
proprietors and managers of the present water 
works system, conceded to be one of the best in 
the entire country, all of the water being filtered 
and chemically pure. The early railroad devel- 
opments of this section of the state form a most 
interesting chapter of history, and with this 
important work Mr. Bull was actively identi- 
fied. Under the internal improvement system 
inaugurated by the state in 1837, various lines 
of railroad were prescribed by the state legisla- 
ture, among them the Northern Cross Railroad, 
extending from Quincy to Danville. Under this 
system the construction of several roads was 
commenced, but in the coui-se of three or four 
years the system was abandoned as a failure, 
about $14,000,000 having been expended, or lost, 
with not one mile of completed road to show 
for it. Then followed other failures, until in 
1851, Mr. Bull, with Messrs. Nehemiah Bushnell, 
Hiram Rogers, James N. Pitman and Gen. Mor- 
gan, took hold of the Northern Cross as direc- 
tors. The new board of directors soon found it 
more desirable to build a road towards Gales- 
burg to connect with a railway extending from 
Galesburg to Chicago. They devoted themselves 
to this project for five years, and in the latter 
part of January, 1856, the line from Quincy to 
Galesburg was finished, the road from Gales- 
burg to Chicago being completed in the mean- 
time. Mr. Bull made the first trip ever made 
from Quincy to Chicago in twenty-four hours. 
Before the road was completed, pending nego- 
tiations required his presence in the east at a 
given time. He rode on a special engine to 
Hill's Grove, went from there to Galesburg in 
a buggy and from Galesburg to Chicago by train, 
making the required connection in Chicago for 
the east. Mr. Bull was one of the early trustees 
of Woodland Orphan Home. He was the first 
secretary of the public Library Association at 
its organization in 1840, and has been active in 
the Associated Charities, the Humane Society, 
and other practical and efficient organizations 
for the relief of the needy, and to them all he 
is a most generous contributor. His benefac- 
tions are bestowed in a most unostentatious 
manner, and the record of his broad charity 
will never be written. 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



WILLIAM S. WARFIELD. 



Mr. William S. Warfleld, president of the 
State Savings, Loan and Trust Company, is 
prominent not only in banking and financial 
circles of the west, but also in the jobbing trade 
and manufacturing business as well. He Is 
president of the Warfield Grocer Company of 
this city, and president of the Warfield-Pratt- 
Howell Company of Iowa, one of the strongest 
concerns in this line of business in the west. 



electric street car systems to be found in any 
western city. He has been active in every rail- 
way project, in the movement for locating the 
Soldiers' Home here, in the Newcomb Hotel and 
Empire Theater companies, the building of the 
Public Library, in the maintenance of Blessing 
Hospital, Woodland Orphan Home and other 
worthy charities. Of his means and of his time 
and ability he has given liberally to innumer- 




having a paid-up capital of $500,000 and oper- 
ating leading houses at Des Moines, Cedar 
Rapids and Sioux City. He is also president of 
the Wellnian & Dwire Tobacco Company of St. 
Louis, and is actively interested in other impor- 
tant enterprises. Mr. Warfield is an eminent 
representative of the pushing, progressive busi- 
ness men of to-day, the successful men of affairs 
who conduct extensive undertakings, and no 
man in Quincy has done more than he to give 
this city the enviable reputation which it enjoys 
in the commercial and financial circles of the 
country. For a third of a century he has beeD 
identified with the progress of Quincy, durinf 
all of that time being one of the most active 
promoters of every important public movement. 
Ten years ago he gave to the city rapid transit, 
purchasing the street railway system, rebuilding 
and extending the lines and introducing one of 
the best managed and most thoroughly equipped 



able enterprises for the improvement and bet- 
terment of Quincy. 

[ Mr. Warfield was born at Bridgeport, Ohio. 
his father, John Warfield, being an old resident 
of the Buckeye state and a most successful busi- 
ness man. When a young man the son first 
engaged in the wholesale grocery trade at 
Bridgeport, coming to Quincy in IS'iS and estab- 
lishing the business now conducted by the 
Warfield Grocer Company. He was president 
of the First National Bank for many years, and 
when it was consolidated with the State Sav- 
ings, Loan and Trust Company he became 
president of that bank, the strongest financial 
institution In the state, outside of Chicago, its 
assets exceeding $3,000,000. Public spirited, 
genial and approachable, Mr. Warfield is a man 
among men, and no citizen of Quincy enjoys 
the confidence and respect of the qompiunity in 
higher degree, 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



ROBERT W. GARDNER. 



Mr. Gardner was the youngest son of James 
Gardner, Esq., of Edinburgh, Scotland, who dur- 
ing his life filled many Important positions In 
the English government and was the associate 
of many of the scientific men of his time, includ- 
ing such eminent men as Robert Stevenson, Col. 
Cubit, Sir Roderic Murchison, and also Lieut. 
Maury of this country. He had charge of the 
first complete trignometrical survey of Great 
Britain, and later was agent of the ordnance 



ematlcs, was dated May 13, 1849, and now, fifty 
years after, will be read with interest: 

Edinburgh, May 13, 1849.— I hereby certify 
that Mr. Robert Gardner attended my math- 
ematical classes from May, 1847, to August, 1848, 
during which period he prosecuted his studies 
very diligently and successfully. He is well 
acquainted with the elements of geometry and 
algebra and with their more important applica- 
tion to mensuration, surveying and engineering. 
His abilities as draughtsman are of the highest 




department of the government, with headquar- 
ters in the Tower of London. He was also 
employed on scientific work by the French gov- 
ernment during the reign of Louis XVII., and 
was one of the great scientists of the day. 

Mr. R. W. Gardner was born In London, Feb. 
18, 1832, but at a very early age was taken to 
Scotland, where he received his education, 
spending the last two years attending classes at 
the University of Edinburgh, and during this 
time was also a student at the Royal School of 
Design. In 1849. being disappointed in receiving 
an expected appointment, he came to this coun- 
try, and taking advice to go west, settled near 
Rushville, where he spent some time teaching a 
country school. He went back to Scotland in 
1851, but changes had taken place and he soon 
returned. When he first left Edinburgh he 
came with but little money and one recom- 
mendation. It was from the professor of math- 



order, and consequently his plans of surveys 
are e.xecuted with great accuracy and elegance. 
It is also consistent with my knowledge that 
he has shown promise of becoming an able land- 
scape painter, from the specimen I have seen in 
the exhibition of paintings in the Royal Insti- 
tute here. He, therefore, in my opinion, cannot 
fail to be successful in any profession where a 
knowledge of such branches of a finished educa- 
tion are required. I can only add that I had 
every reason to be fully satisfied with his 
general good conduct while he was under my 
tuition, and to wish him that success in the 
world to which his abilities justly entitle him. 

WILLIAM GALBRAITH. M. A., F. R. A. S., 
Teacher of Mathematics, etc. 

On Sept. 1. 1852, Mr. Gardner came to Quincy. 
but could find no position either as draughtsman 
or teacher of art, and being compelled to do 
something, apprenticed himself to Mr. Edward 
G. Turner in order to learn the practical side of 
mechanics. Mr. Turner having a small machine 
shop on Sixth street, between Maine and Hamp- 



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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



shire Sitreets. In 1854 he secured an excellent 
position with an engine-building firm in Alton, 
but soon returned to Quincy and with Mr. Henry 
Mitchell purchased the Turner shops. After the 
death of Mr. Mitchell he was associated with 
Mr. John Robertson and in time acquired the 
entire interest in the business. During the 
year 1859 Mr. Gardner's attention was given 
especially to improving the governor of the 
steam engine, taking out his first patent Aug. 
14, 1860. In 1883 the Gardner Governor Com- 
pany was incorporated, and since the year 1870 
the manufacture of steam engine governors has 
been conducted as a specialty. A complete 
record of every governor sold, with full details 
of particulars, has been kept, the number up to 
the beginning of the present year reaching 
nearly 140,000. These governors have been in- 
troduced and sold in nearly every country In 
the world, and can be found in South Africa, 
,Tapan, Australia, Island of Madagascar and 
other remote places. Stocks of governors are 
carried by agencies in London, Berlin, Brussels, 
Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Antwerp and other 
European cities. The works of the Gardner 
Governor Company are the largest special gov- 



ernor works in the world at the present time. 
The invention and perfection of this governor 
has placed Mr. Gardner in the front rank of 
American inventors. He has been accorded 
merited recognition by leading mechanical 
societies of this country and Europe and is as 
widely known abroad as in his own country. 
The delicate and intricate governing mechan- 
ism for the great Yerkes' telescope was designed 
by Mr. Gardner, and In many other directions 
has his Inventive genius and mechanical skill 
been demonstrated. 

While Mr. Gardner has given very close atten- 
tion to his business, he has interested himself 
in several charitable organizations of the city. 
He is president of Blessing Hospital, a trustee 
of Woodland Orphan Home and the Associated 
Charities, and was also interested in establish- 
ing the Free Public Library. In these institu- 
tions he has been an active and most efficient 
worker and one of the most liberal supporters. 
In Sunday-school work he is widely know;i and 
has been superintendent of the Vermont Street 
Baptist Sunday-school tor thirty-five years. The 
influence of his active, useful, helpful lite is all 
for good. 



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JOHN M. LEWIS. 

Active and energetic in business affairs, enter- 
prising and progressive in everything that tends 
to promote the well-being of the city, frank and 
outspoken at all times, Mr. John M. Lewis is a 
fair type of the successful business men of 
Quincy. While he attends strictly to the large 
and important business of the jobbing house 
with which he is identified, he ranks as one of 
Quincy's public-spirited citizens, always ready 
to contribute his full share in every movement 
for the public good. Mr. Lewis comes of Vir- 
ginia stock, but was born in Indiana, his father 
having been a resident of that state for many 
years. In early life he represented an Indian- 
apolis house on the road and afterwards en- 
gaged in merchandising. He came to this city 
in 1882 and three years later, with Mr. L. B. 
Bartlett, established the Quincy Casket Com- 
pany, of which he has since been the manager. 
The business of this house has been extended to 
all the territory tributary to Quincy and it now 
takes prominent rank in the trade. 




REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



RICHARD F. NEWCOMB. 



In the broadest sense Mr. R. F. Newcomb, 
president of the American Straw Board Com- 
pany, is one of Quincy's representative men. 
For more than twenty-five years he has been 
prominently identified with every important 
public enterprise, and his keen judgment, un- 
usual energy and broad public spirit have 
contributed largely towards the material ad- 
vancement of the city. In addition to establish- 
ing and developing one of the leading industries 



gaged in the saw mill business and in farming. 
When the second call for volunteers was made 
during the early part of the war, he enlisted as 
sergeant of Company A, Fifty-second Massa- 
chusetts Infantry, Sept. 9, 1862. His first service 
was with Banks' expedition, his regiment being 
the first to march into Port Hudson after the 
surrender. For some months he served on the 
brigade staff, having charge of the ordnance 
supplies and later of the entire medical stores. 




of Quincy, a business that attained national 
importance and of which he has become the 
executive head, he has been a leading factor in 
many enterprises of greatest importance to the 
city at large. Among the active, aggressive and 
successful business men of the west, the men 
of affairs who deal with large interests, Mr. 
Newcomb occupies a prominent place and is 
widely known. Born at Bernardston, Mass., 
Sept. 20, 1837, he was fitted for college at Willis- 
ton Seminary, but his natural aptitude for 
commercial affairs induced him to accept a 
position in a hardware house in Boston when 
he was sixteen years old, where he remained 
for three or four years. He then returned to 
his native town to take charge of his father's 
mercantile business, his father being also en- 



On leaving the service he conducted his father's 
store for a time, and in August, 1866, located 
at Beloit, Wis., where he engaged in the paper- 
making business. The year following the 
Northwest Paper Company was organized, Mr. 
Newcomb being the vice-president, and an ex- 
tensive wholesale paper house was established 
in Chicago. With their mill at Beloit and their 
house in Chicago this was one of the leading 
concerns in the paper trade of the west. The 
company was burned out in the great Chicago 
fire of 1871, and with his brother Mr. Newcomo 
came to Quincy and bought the paper mill here, 
starting it up in April, 1872, under the firm 
name of Newcomb Bros. Two years later he 
.sold his interest in the Northwest Paper Com- 
pany to his brother and became the sole owner 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



of the Quincy plant, which he conducted with 
signal success. In 1880 the Quincy Paper Com- 
pany was organized, with Mr. Newcomb as the 
head, and the business was increased until the 
plant has become the second largest straw- 
board mill in the country. In 1889 it was 
absorbed by the American Straw Board Com- 
pany. Of this extensive organization Mr. 
Newcomb has been one of the controlling pow- 
ers from the first, and for the past two years he 
has held the office of president. The develop- 
ment of this important industry to its present 
immense proportions is due very largely to his 
rare foresight and his unusual executive and 
business ability. One of the first to appreciate 
the possibilities of this branch of business, he 
has become the important factor in the man- 
agement of many mills throughout the country, 
and he is as well known in all the commercial 
and financial centers as he is here at home. In 



every community it is the busy men who must 
inaugurate and promote all public affairs, and in 
Quincy Mr. Newcomb has been among the first 
and most active in many enterprises. Public 
spirited and progressive in everything, Quincy 
owes much to him for its material advance- 
ment. 

Mr. Newcomb was married May 2, 1860, to 
Miss Eliza A. Bowman, of Flushing, L. I., at 
St. Paul'" Church, New York City. His wife 
died i-..'ur years later, leaving one daughter, 
Mrs. Joseph W. Emery. Sept. 22, 1869, he mar- 
ried Miss Anna M. Ritchie, of Beloit, Wis., and 
they have three daughters and one son, Mrs. 
John A. Stillwell, Mrs. Frank H. Whitney, Miss 
Florence and Richard Bernard Newcomb, now 
fitting himself for a collegiate course. The 
home of Mr. and Mrs. Newcomb, on East Maine 
street, is one of the notable residences of this 
section of the state. 



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ALDO SOMMER. 

For more than forty years Mr. Aldo Sommer 
has been prominently identified with the drug 
trade of Quincy, and he is one of the pioneers 
of the jobbing business in that important line. 
Coming to this country in 1849, he located in 
this city in 1857 and became a member of the 
drug firm of F. Flachs & Co. In 1860 he suc- 
ceeded to the entire business. Four years later 
Mr. William Metz became associated with him, 
and the firm of Sommer & Metz opened an 
extensive wholesale and retail drug house. In 
1869 he retired from business to travel with his 
family in this country and Europe, and he re- 
turned in 1873 to embark in the wholesale drug 
business exclusively. The firm of Sommer, 
Lynds & Co., of which Mr. Somner was presi- 
dent and treasurer, existed from 1875 to 1894, 
when their entire stock was lost by water on 
account of a fire in the adjoining building. Mr. 
Sommer was at that time largely interested in 
the Van Natta-Lynds Drug Co. of St. Joseph, 
and president of the Spokane Drug Co., Spo- 
kane, Wash. The Aldo Sommer Drug Co. suc- 
ceeded to the business in Quincy, with Mr. 
Sommer as chief. Although fifty years in the 
drug business, he is active and enjoys it more 
than ever, trying to please the many friends 
and customers. In 1862, with Mr. Hargis, he 



established the Star Nursery, and for over 
twenty-five years conducted one of the leading 




nurseries of this section in addition to his drug 
business. A man of broad culture and high 
attainments, he is one of Quincy 's best citizens. 



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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOME.S. 



CHARLES 

Like his brother, Mr. Charles H. Bull came 
here in an early day and has spent his entire 
active business life in Quincy. When fourteen 
years of age he left his home in Hartford, Conn., 
to seek his fortune in the west, joining Mr. 
Lorenzo Bull in this city in 1837. For seven 
years he was employed in the store of Mr. J. T. 
Holmes, his salary the first year being $100. 
with an advance of $50 each succeeding year. 
While the salary was small it was sufficient to 



H. BULL. 

agement of the organization of the company 
and of the work of construction devolved very 
largely on him. and he was afterwards for many 
years the president of the company Out of this 
enterprise has been developed an important 
railway system, extending from Quincy to Kan- 
sas City, St. Joseph. Omaha and south to the 
Gulf. The history of the Quincy, Missouri & 
Pacific Railway would fill a book and would 
prove highly interesting reading. Soon after 




enable him to thoroughly establish himself 
among the early pioneers of the rapidly devel- 
oping west and to lay the foundation for the 
extensive and important undertakings of later 
years. In 1844 the firm of L. & C. H. Bull was 
established, a business title which was con- 
tinued for more than half a century and which 
became as widely and favorably known as any 
firm name in the entire west. First in mercan- 
tile trade and then for nearly forty years in the 
banking business, it was a title that stood for 
sterling worth and absolute stability. When 
the State Savings, Loan and Trust Company 
succeeded to the business of this firm, Mr. Bull 
became first vice-president, an office which he 
still holds, and he is still one of the active man- 
agers of this great banking concern. One of the 
most important enterprises with which Mr. Bull 
has been identified aside from his banking busi- 
ness is the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railway. 
He was one of the projectors of this undertaking 
in June, 1869, and was the first treasurer and 
financial agent as well as a member of the first 
board of directors. The active financial man- 



the active work of construction was commenced 
a period of universal business depression set in, 
and but for the wise foresight and constant, 
careful business management of Mr. Bull and 
his associates the enterprise could not have 
succeeded. Eventually this road will become an 
important link in the shortest and most direct 
east and west line across the continent, a con- 
summation towards which Mr. Bijll is still 
actively working and which will prove of para- 
mount importance to the city. 

From the earlier days Mr. Bull has been 
active in worthy public enterprises calculated 
to advance the welfare of his home city. He is 
president of the Public Library Association, to 
which he devotes much time and attention. He 
is also president of the Graceland Cemetery As- 
sociation, treasurer and trustee of the Anna 
Brown Home for the Aged, a' director of the 
Associated Charities, and a generous contributor 
to every worthy cause. Few men have done 
more for Quincy, and still in the prime of life, 
Mr. Bull has many useful and helpful years 
before him. 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



CHAUNCEY H. CASTLE. 



Mr. Castle, president of the Comstock-Castle 
Stove Company, is one of the most prominent 
and widely Ivnown stove manufacturers of the 
country. The business of which he is the head 
was established in 1849 by Allen and Enoch 
Comstock, and is one of the oldest as well as 
one of the largest stove-making plants in the 
west. Mr. Castle was born in Columbus, 111., 
July 10, 1843. His father, the late Timothy 
Castle, was one of the pioneer residents of the 



in the stove foundry, and in 1865 he went into 
the office as shipping clerk, to become a partner 
in the business three years later. In 1880 the 
present company was incorporated. In all mat- 
ters of public enterprise Mr. Castle is univer- 
sally regarded as a thoroughly representative 
business man. He is president of the Stove 
Founders' National Defense Association, a di- 
rector in the American Straw Board Company, 
and since 1892 has served as aid-de-camp on the 




county, coming here from Wilmington, Vt., in 
1835. He was a man of affairs, and up to the 
time of his death in 1880 was an important 
factor in the progress and development of the 
city. Coming to Quincy with his parents in 
1858, Mr. C. H. Castle attended the public 
schools and soon after the breaking out of the 
war left Quincy College to go into the army, 
enlisting as a private in Company I, Seventy- 
third Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Though but 
eighteen years of age he was a brave soldier 
and soon gained the rank of acting sergeant- 
major. His regiment participated in many of 
the notable battles of the early part of the war, 
and he was repeatedly wounded, his military 
career being finally terminated at the terrible 
fight at Chickamauga, where he was shot five 
times — in both legs, both arms and the hand. 
In 1863 his father had purchased a large interest 



staff of each of the National Commanders of 
the Grand Army of the Republic. At home Mr. 
Castle is interested in many important enter- 
prises. He is a director in the State Savings, 
Loan and Trust Company, the Newcomb Hotel 
Company, Graceland Cemetery Association, the 
Quincy Freight Bureau, the Chamber of Com- 
merce, president of the Mulliner Box and Plan- 
ing Company and was for some time president 
of the Quincy Commercial Club. His zeal for 
the public welfare is proverbial. He was chair- 
man of the committee that was so largely 
r^strumental in hastening the extensive C, B. & 
Q. improvements now in progress here, and the 
heavy purchases of property necessary to these 
improvements were made under his personal 
direction. For all worthy objects Mr. Castle Is 
a liberal contributor, and his name is strongly 
stamped in the progressive history of Quincy. 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



HENRY A. WILLIAMSON. 



Mr. H. A. Williamson was the pioneer In 
establishing the extensive oil business in the 
west, and in the development of this great in- 
dustry he has been a most important factor. 
Born at Freeport, Pa., Sept. 7, 1828, his early 
business interests were largely in Western 
Pennsylvania. In 1859 he decided to seek a 
location in the west, and in 1860 established 




his present oil business in this city. He was 
the general western agent for large oil refiners 
in Pennsylvania and for some years supplied 
all of the oil used as far west as the Missouri 
river, his trade including Kansas City, St. 
Joseph, Denver and other important cities. At 
that time oil was made from coal. Later when 
oil wells were discovered and oil was refined 
from petroleum, the material reduction in prices 
and the wonderful increase in the supply 



brought about an immense increase in the 
business. With this increase Mr. Williamson's 
facilities have kept steady pace, and he is to-day 
one of the leading dealers of the country in this 
important industry. For supplying the local 
trade he has established an extensive depot and 
warehouse south of the city, with large storage 
tanks where the oil is received direct from the 
tank cars. Storage stations have also been 
established at all important points in his ter- 
ritory, nearly all of the oil being shipped in 
tank cars direct from the refineries to points 
of distribution and consumption. This very 
important as well as very extensive business is 
wonderfully systematized, and dealers are sup- 
plied on an hour's notice. Mr. Williamson also 
handles nearly all the salt used in this section. 

For many years Mr. Williamson was vice- 
president of the First National Bank, and when 
that institution was consolidated with the State 
Savings, Loan and Trust Company he became 
one of the directors of the latter bank. He has 
been president of the Quincy Building and Loan 
Association ever since its organization, with 
the exception of one year, and has been an im- 
portant factor in the development of the impor- 
tant building association interest in this city. 
The institution of which he is president was 
the first establshed here and will soon celebrate 
its twenty-fifth anniversary. He is also presi- 
dent of the Arrowrock Mining and Milling Com- 
pany, a director of the Newcomb Hotel 
Company, and a director of the Aldo Sommer 
Drug Company. For many years Mr. William- 
son has been actively identified with the Episco- 
pal Church. He was largely instrumental in 
the division of the diocese of Illinois and the 
creation of the diocese of Quincy in 1877. Since 
the organization of the Quincy diocese he has 
been a member of the standing committee, the 
executive power of the diocese, and he has been 
a delegate to each of the general conventions. 
He is also senior warden of St. John's Cathedral. 
In all public movements he is one of Quincy's 
most progressive citizens, and he is a generous 
contributor to all worthy charities. 



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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



HENRY F. J. RICKER. 



So long as Quincy stands the name of Mr. H. 
P. J. Ricker will be honored in this community. 
Mr. Ricker occupies a position peculiarly his 
own. His long and active life has been devoted 
largely to improving the city of his choice. 
While he has accumulated property, probably 
more largely than any other citizen, he has 
improved it, dotting waste places with sub- 
stantial homes, business blocks and factories. 
He has bought property which had no attrac- 
tions for a less far-seeing man and has created 
desirable residence localities. But for him the 
progress of improvements would have been very 
much slower, and not for many years to come 
would Quincy be as attractive as it is to-day. 
While he has done this. Mr. Ricker has founded 
• and built up one of the greatest banking insti- 
tutions in the west, an institution with 
resources of over $3,000,000, and has made for 
himself a name among the leading financiers of 
the country. All of this he has accomplished 
from a very humble beginning. Mr. Ricker was 
born in Germany in 1822 and emigrated to 
America with his parents in 1839. landing first 
at New Orleans. Then he came up the river to 
St. Louis, and on March 4, 1840, located in 
Quincy. His first employment was with the 
late Gov. Wood as an ordinary laborer, thus 
assisting his father in paying for two lots pur- 
chased from his employer. He was afterwards 
employed as a clerk for S. & W. B. Thayer, 
Charles Holmes and Albert Daneke. and in 1849 
associated himself in the mercantile business 
with Leopold Arntzen. For seven years this 
business was very successful and was afterwards 
supplemented with the produce business. In 
1858 Mr. Ricker was elected police magistrate 
and was re-elected in 1862. It was at this time 
that he laid the foundation for his present ex- 
tensive bank. Commanding the confidence of 
the community to the highest degree, he began 
the banking and exchange business in a small 
way, but it prospered steadily, and in 186.5 he 
bought out the banking house of John Wood & 
Co., on Fifth and Maine streets. Soon after, 
Mr. Bernard H. F. Hoene became a partner in 
the business and the bank was located on 
Hampshire street, between Fifth and Sixth. 



Later the Ricker National Bank was organized, 
of which Mr. Ricker is the president and the 
leading stockholder, and the present substantial 
banking house was built. Mr. Ricker was one 
of the organizers of the German Insurance and 
Savings Institution, one of the promoters and 
leading stockholders of the Quincy, Missouri & 




Pacific Railway, a director in the Gas and Elec- 
tric Light companies, and is now treasurer of 
the Menke & Grimm Planing Mill Company. He 
has never sought public position, but in 1884 
was the unanimous choice of his party for state 
treasurer, a compliment which came to him 
entirely unsolicited. A resident of Quincy for 
nearly sixty years, Mr. Ricker's life has been a 
very active one. He is still in active life, giving 
his attention to his extensive banking and other 
interests, an honored and universally respected 
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GORHAM J. 

Of solid physique, genial and approachable, 
yet firm and positive in his judgment, unflinch- 
ing in courage to meet any emergency, Mr. 
Gorham J. Cottrell is a prominent type of the 
representative and successful business man. 
Having made his own way in the world, he is 
dominated by independence and self-reliance, 
yet is charitable and generous to the less for- 
tunate and the needy. Mr. Cottrell was born 
on a farm in Chautauqua County, New York, 



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owner concluding that as the range had been 
cut off he would go farther west. There was no 
railroad there at that time, but Macomb was a 
prosperous and thriving place. Mr. Cottrell 
knew very little about the hardware business, 
but he was an unusually good salesman, put in 
a big stock of goods, including the first full car 
load of stoves ever shipped to the town, and 
went to work to sell them. His competitor in 
business wanted to know what he was doing 





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near Chautauqua Lake, his boyhood being spent 
on the farm and in attending the district school. 
He also enjoyed the advantages of a thorough 
academic education. When seventeen years of 
age he secured a position in a general store at 
Mayville, a beautiful village at the head of the 
lake, working the first year for $5 a month. 
This position he retained for nearly four years, 
applying himself closely and securing a thor- 
ough knowledge of general merchandising. He 
then obtained a better position at Fredonia, 
N. Y., and after clerking two years, at the age 
of twenty-two, became a partner in the store. 
The new firm was successful from the start and 
after continuing the business for three years he 
decided to come west, stopping first at Aurora, 
but locating at Macomb in 1856, with a fair 
amount of capital. He bought out an old- 
established hardware business, the former 



with so many stoves, predicting that he would 
never find customers for them all. In two weekt 
they were practically all sold, and an order was 
placed for another large shipment. He re- 
mained in Macomb ten years, doing a very 
profitable business, and in 1866 came to Quincy, 
buying out the hardware business of Joslyn & 
Co. Since that time he has met with continued 
and uninterrupted success. In 1879 he built 
his present extensive hardware house, one of 
the finest stone-front business blocks in the city. 
Mr. Cottrell is president of the Cottrell Hard- 
ware Company, the Cottrell-Sholl Furniture 
Co. and the Newcomb Hotel Company. His 
property interests are large and he is also in- 
terested in other Important business enterprises. 
Of late years he has devoted considerable time 
to travel, in this country and abroad. 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



THOMAS POPE. 



After a long and active business life, dating 
back more than sixty years, Mr. Thomas Pope 
is enjoying well-earned rest and recreation, sur- 
rounded by his books, and loved and venerated 
by the entire community. He is one of Quincy's 
pioneers, sharing in the toil and privations of 
the early days, and throughout his active and 
helpful life he has contributed his full share in 
the development of the city. Mr. Pope was 
born in New York City, July 20, 1S20, and re- 



erected in Quincy. This being the time of a 
serious famine in Ireland, they had a prosperous 
business, the demand for American breadstuffs 
being active. The business with Mr. Penfield 
continued until Mr. Pope left for Oregon in 1853. 
In 1S43 Mr. Pope was married to Mrs. Lucinda 
Burns Borein, Mrs. Borein then having one 
child, P. R. Borein. Two sons were the fruit of 
this union, Charles Abernethy and Thomas 
Edward. Charles gave his life for his country 




ceived his early education in the public schools 
of that city. His father, Charles Pope, moved 
with most of his family from New York to 
Quincy in 1837, the journey occupying thirty 
days. After five years' residence his father and 
mother returned to their old home, two sons 
and a married daughter remaining here. Mr 
Thomas Pope acted as clerk in stores, first in 
Payson and afterwards in Quincy. In 1844 he 
started a general store on the north side of 
Hampshire street, west of Fourth. A few years 
later he conducted a general store with the late 
U. S. Penfield, on the north side of Hampshire 
street, just east of Fourth, the firm name being 
Pope & Co. At the same time the firm of Pope, 
Whyers & Hazard owned and conducted the old 
steam flouring mill on Front street, near Del- 
aware, this being the first mill of the kind 



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in the civil war. Thomas Edward Pope and 
Peter R. Borein have long been residents of 
Oakland, Cal. With the exception of five years 
spent in Oregon— 1853 to 1858— the residence of 
Mr. and Mrs. Pope has been continuously in 
Quincy. They celebrated their golden wedding 
with their children and grandchildren in Oak- 
land, Cal., May 11, 1893. 

Soon after the return from Oregon, Mr. Pope 
started a grocery and produce business on 
Front street. In 1861 the firm of Pope & 
Baldwin was formed, and a prosperous business 
in agricultural implements conducted for over a 
quarter of a century, up to the time of the death 
of Mr. E. G. Baldwin. In the meantime Messrs. 
W. R. Lockwood and John W. Heitz had become 
partners, and the name of the firm was changed 
to Pope, Baldwin & Co. After the death of Mr. 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



Baldwin the firm name was Pope, Lockwood 
& Co., until the business was closed in 1891. 
Since that time Mr. Pope has not been in active 
business. 

As affording some insight to the life of Mr. 
Pope, reference may be had to some of the car- 
dinal principles that dominated it. In politics 
he was, first and last, for "free soil and free 
speech," as was evidenced by his vote for James 
G. Birney for President in 1844, when Polk 
defeated Clay; as also in the presidential con- 
test of 1848, when, associated with seven other 
gentlemen of Quincy, a campaign paper, the 
Quincy Tribune, was published in the interest 
of free soil and of the election of Martin Van 
Buren to the presidency. The paper was ably 
conducted, the principal writers being Charles 
B. Lawrence, afterwards one of the Supreme 
Court Judges, and Samuel Willard, now a 
prominent educator in Chicago. 

At all times and under all circumstances he 
has had the courage of his convictions. During 
the troublesome and critical times preceding the 
rebellion and during the war, he espoused the 
right, fearlessly and vigorously defending his 
position, even when single-handed, manifesting 
a degree of physical, as well as moral, courage 
possessed by few men. By reason of his strong, 
fearless and unblemished character, Thomas 
Pope early became a tower of strength in the 
community and during his long life his influence 
for good has been unshaken. 



As to temperance Mr. Pope early planted his 
feet on the rock of total abstinence. He. and 
his intimate friend, the late U. S. Penfield, 
joined the Washingtonian movement in the 
early forties, and they were afterwards among 
the charter members of the first organization of 
Sons of Temperance in Quincy. Mr. Pope helped 
form the first division of Sons of Temperance 
in Oregon and when, in 1858, he returned to 
Quincy, he had been appointed to represent 
Oregon in the national division Sons of Temper- 
ance about to assemble in Indianapolis. 

One other feature marked the years of his 
early manhood, the determination to give his 
earnest allegiance to the moral and religious 
life of the community. Fifty-six years_ago, 
under the pastorate of Rev. Horatio Foote, Mr. 
and Mrs. Pope united with the First Congrega- 
tional Church of Quincy and gladly bore their 
part in its work and worship. For many years 
Mr. Pope was active in the work of the Sunday 
school. 

Mr. Pope has frequently represented his 
church in the meetings of district associations; 
in the state association, and been twice honored 
by appointment as delegate to the National 
Triennial Councils of the Congregational 
Churches. 

In their pleasant home on East Vermont 
street Mr. and Mrs. Pope have entered upon the 
fifty-sixth year of their married life. 



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CHARLES E. CARLEY. 

Mr. Charles E. Carley was born in Shelbyville, 
Mo.. October 23. 18.56, and is a son of Mr. Felix 
J. Carley, in more recent years a respected resi- 
dent of this city. In 1S69 he came to Quincy to 
accept a position as apprentice in the drug house 
of Rogers & Malone, remaining in that house 
for thirteen years and becoming an experienced 
pharmacist and chemist, having full charge of 
the retail department of their store. In 1882 he 
engaged in the retail drug business at Fifth and 
Hampshire streets, building up a large and 
profitable trade. Later he became interested in 
the wholesale business of the Sommer-Lynds 
Drug Company, having charge of the extensive 
sundry department. Three years ago Mr. Car- 
ley built his present drug store building on 
North Sixth avenue, where he has a most attrac- 
tive and inviting place of business as well as a 
profitable trade. 




REPREvSENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



GEORGE WELLS. 



Mr. George Wells, senior member of the firm 
of Wells & Adams, -loan and mortgage bankers 
and brokers, is a native of Quincy, and few men 
in the city have gained greater distinction in 
civic life than he. He is a member of one of 
the oldest and most prominent of Quincy fam- 
ilies, his father, Edward Wells, having been one 
of the pioneers of the city. Edward Wells was 
born in Newburyport. Mass., in 1813, but left 
that place at the early age of 17, removing to 



from college he first became associated with his 
father in pork packing, but later became inter- 
ested in the fruit canning industry and then in 
groceries, in all of which he was successful. 
Several years ago he founded the firm of Wells 
& Adams, which occupies handsome apartments 
in the Wells building and conducts an extensive 
business. Mr. Wells has been prominently 
identified with a number of public enterprises, 
and has given freely of his time and means for 




Boston. He remained there four years, or until 
he was 21 years of age, and then decided to 
come west. This section of the country was then 
little more than a wilderness, and after a rough 
journey of thirty-six days he arrived in Quincy. 
That was in 1S34, when this city was a frontier 
village. He first engaged in coopering, and 
later became interested in the packing of pork 
and beef on a large scale, to which he devoted 
his attention for a number of years, and was a 
most successful business man. He was one of 
the men whose sturdy character and enterprise 
helped to make Quincy what it is, and when he 
passed away at the ripe age of 79 he was 
mourned by the whole community. 

Mr. George Wells was born in this city August 
22, 1846, and was educated in the schools of 
Quincy and of Massachusetts. Upon his return 



the public weal. Politically, he is a republican, 
but has never sought office, although he has 
always taken a keen interest in public affairs. 
He is a prominent member of the Masonic fra- 
ternity, and has been eminent commander of 
El Aksa commandery of Knights Templar. 

Mr. Wells was married in 1869 to Miss Sarah 
.Jane Castle, a native of England. They have 
four children, Edward C. and James Russell 
Wells, who are associated with him in business, 
Charles L. and Harriet E. Wells. His eldest 
son, Edward C. Wells, is a graduate of the Mas- 
sachusetts Institute of Technology, and enjoys 
the distinction of being the only republican who 
was ever elected county surveyor of Adams 
County. Mr. Wells is a splendid type of the 
unassuming citizen, and commands the 
unbounded confidence and respect of the whole 
community. 



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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



EDWARD J. PARKER. 



In the building up and development of the 
extensive banking interest of Quincy, Mr. E. J. 
Parker has been an active and important factor. 
For more than thirty-five years he has been 
engaged in the banking business in this city. 
coming here from Hartford, Conn., his native 
city, in 1S63, to associate himself with the bank- 
ing firm of L. & C. H. Bull. With this bank he 
has since been connected, excepting six years, 
from 1873 to 1879, when he was engaged in 



boulevards which the public now enjoys. By 
reason of the limited resources of the city the 
revenues available for this work have been very 
small, but through Mr. Parker's energy and 
determination Quincy now has one of the most 
beautiful systems of public parks in the entire 
country. The commanding sites along the river 
north and south of the city have been preserved 
for public parks, South Park and Primrose Park 
have been created and the older parks have been 




banking on his own account. In 1879 the busi- 
ness of his firm and of L. & C. H. Bull was 
consolidated, Mr. Parker becoming a member 
of the firm and he is now cashier of the succes- 
sor to that bank, the State Savings, Loan and 
Trust Company, the largest banking institution 
in Illinois, outside of Chicago, under state char- 
ter, and one of the most important in volume of 
business in the entire west. To the develop- 
ment of this strong financial institution he has 
contributed his full share and he is still one of 
its active managers. 

During his long residence here Mr. Parker has 
been an important factor in the development of 
the city. As one of the organizers and the 
president of the Park and Boulevard Associa- 
tion since its formation, to his tireless efforts is 
largely due the magnificent system of parks and 



greatly beautified. Broad boulevards encircling 
the entire city and connecting the public parks 
have also been provided. To this work Mr. 
Parker has given very largely of his time and 
his artistic genius, and he has accomplished 
seeming impossibilities with the limited 
resources at command. An active and promi- 
nent member of the American Forestry Associa- 
tion and of the American Park and Outdoor Art 
Association, it is particularly fortunate that 
Quincy should enjoy the benefit of his genius in 
park development. 

Mr. Parker was for many years one of the 
directors of the street railway company and 
was a member of the board when the present 
splendid system of rapid transit was introduced. 
He was also identified with the extensive busi- 
ness of the Quincy Paper Company as director 



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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



and secretary up to the time of the formation of 
the American Straw Board Company. For 
some time he held the office of treasurer of the 
Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railway Com- 
pany, and is now cashier of the successor road, 
the Omaha, Kansas City & Eastern Railway. A 
forceful speaker and a convincing writer, he has 
taken prominent part in many important public 
movements, more recently in the sound cur- 
rency movement and the corn propaganda, now 
attracting universal attention. He was vice 
president for Illinois of the Indianapolis Mone- 
tary Congress, is a recognized factor in the 
National Business League and a prominent 
member of the Illinois and the National Bank- 
ers' Associations. All of the business associa- 
tions organized in Quincy have had his earnest 
support. To the young men he has always been 
a helpful and steadfast friend, ever ready to 
assist in securing them employment and in 
aiding them in a substantial way. The militia 
and naval organizations have received his active 
co-operation. Mr. Parker is the treasurer of 
Blessing Hospital Association and has been one 
of the leading supporters of that important 



charity since its organization. He is also 
actively identified with other charitable associa- 
tions devoted to the public good. For many 
years he has been prominent in the affairs of 
the Episcopal Church, being one of the organ- 
izers of the Church of the Good Shepherd, to 
which he has been a most liberal contributor. 
He was also active in bringing about a division 
of the Diocese of Illinois and the creation of 
the Diocese of Quincy. The organization of the 
Woodland Cemetery Association was largely 
brought about through his efforts. One of the 
organizers of the Quincy Country Club, Mr. 
Parker is also a member of several of the prom- 
inent clubs of Chicago and the eastern cities. 
Few men with as important business responsi- 
bilities could successfully undertake so much 
work for the public good, but Mr. Parker is a 
rapid and systematic worker and possesses the 
quality of energy that never knows defeat. In 
his extensive travels in this country and abroad 
he has been a close observer and his broad cul- 
ture has enabled him to make his observations 
and rare fund of information of practical benefit 
to the public and to his home city. 



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JOHN R. WISDOM. 
Mr, John R. Wisdom was born on a farm in 
Randolph County, Missouri, March 22, 1848. 
After receiving a common school education, he 
went to work on the home farm, the best in the 
county. When fifteen years of age he enlisted 
in Company D. Thirty-ninth Missouri Volunteer 
Infantry, serving to the close of the war. He 
was young in years, but old enough to make a 
brave and faithful soldier. At the close of the 
war he commenced handling lumber as a con- 
tractor and was then engaged in the livery busi- 
ness in Hannibal for some years, the firm being 
Loudon & Wisdom. In 1880 Mr. Wisdom was 
elected to the state legislature from Marion 
County, the only '-epublican who has been 
elected from that district since 1870. In 1886 he 
went to Arkansas as the general manager of the 
Heme Lumber Company and in 1890 located in 
this city as manager of the Gem City Saw Mill 
Company. In 1898 he was elected president and 
general manager, the position which he still 
holds. The business of this company is one of 
the largest and most important in Quincy. The 
mill is one of the best on the river, cutting 
twenty-five million feet of lumber a year and 
giving lucrative employment to a large number 
of men. The splendid success of the business is 
largely due to Mr. Wisdom's excellent manage- 
ment and unusual business capacity. 




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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



WILLIARD P. UPHAM. 



Mr. Willarrt P. Upham, one of the substantial 
citizens and representative business men of 
Quincy, is descended from tlie Pilgrim fathers 
and inherits their sturdy characteristics. His 
ancestors were among the early settlers of New 
England, they having come to America in 1635, 
and settled in Massachusetts only fifteen years 
after the landing at Plymouth Rock. They were 
identified with the early Indian wars and with 
the development of New England, and the fam- 
ily history contains the names of several 
soldiers of the war of the revolution. 

Mr. Upham was b6rn in Melrose, Mass., in 
1841, that city having also been his father's 
native place, and with such sturdy blood in his 
veins he was bound to become a leader. After 
leaving school he determined upon a commer- 
cial life, and served his first apprenticeship in a 
large wholesale dry goods store in Boston. He 
came west in the early si.xties, locating first at 
Washington, Iowa, where he engaged in the 
retail boot and shoe business. Three years 
later he removed to Keokuk, Iowa, where he 
embarked in the same business, afterwards 
enlarging it to a wholesale as well as retail 
house. He came to Quincy in 1878, succeeding 
the old established boot and shoe house of C. 
Brown. Jr., the firm name being Upham, Gordon 
& Co. Mr. J. W. Sinnock was the third member, 
but he withdrew later, and was succeeded in the 
firm by Charles C. Upham. The retail branch 
of the business was abandoned after a time and 
the firm devoted itself exclusively to the whole- 
sale trade, in which it has been remarkably 
successful, its operations extending all over the 
west. 

Politically, Mr. Upham is a republican, and in 
spite of his extensive business cares has found 
time to devote attention to politics in the broad- 
est sense. He has never held a public office and 
has never permitted the use of his name, but he 
has been actively identified with many impor- 
tant movements for the advancement of the 
public weal. He took an active part in the 
organization of the Quincy Chamber of Com- 
merce, and was elected its first president, which 
office he still holds. Under his capable direc- 
tion and wise administration, the Chamber of 
Commerce has become a potent instrument for 
the upbuilding of Quincy, and a number of 



accomplished benefits stand as monuments to 
his zeal and energy. Through him the Chamber 
of Commerce assisted in successfully promoting 
the new Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad 
terminals, the new wagon bridge, the public 
market, the hard road across the river in Mis- 
souri, and it is now engaged in the movement 
for the construction of good roads in Adams 
County, and in the cultivation of the sugar beet 
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here. 

Mr. Upham is one of the representative men 
of the commercial and financial interests of 
Quincy. He was for years a director of the First 
National Bank, and when it was consolidated 
with the State Savings, Loan and Trust Com- 
pany he was elected a member of the directory 
of the consolidated banks. He is also active in 
charitable and philanthropic work, is a liberal 
but unostentatious contributor to all worthy 
causes, and is one of the trustees of Blessing 
Hospital. 



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FREDERICK W. MENKE. 



Pew citizens of Quincy are more widely 
known than Mr. Frederick W. Menke, the head 
of the important stone industry which bears his 
name. He is one of the leading contractors in 
stone work in the west, and the Adams County 
court house, the Quincy public library build- 
ing, the court house at Kirksville, Mo., and 




many other public and private buildings in this 
and adjoining states are monuments to his skill 
and honesty. 

Mr. Menke is a native of Westphalia, Prussia, 
and was born August 12, 1832, the eldest of six 
children of Herman H. and Hannah (Ricksick) 
Menke. His father was a farmer and veterinary 
surgeon, and Mr. Menke spent his boyhood in 
attending school in his native town and helping 
his father on the farm. When twenty years old 
he decided to come to America, and landed in 
New Orleans in 1852, coming thence direct to 



Quincy. He learned the trade of stone cutter, 
and worked at the trade as a journeyman until 
1863. when he went into business for himself as 
a contractor. In 1SS6 he organized the P. W. 
Menke Stone and Lime Company, and he has 
ever since actively directed its affairs. His skill 
as a builder is unquestioned, and his honesty is 
unimpeachable. Many contracts have been 
awarded to him without competition. Many 
important buildings in Quincy and adjoining 
cities are monuments to his skill, and it has 
come to be an axiom in building operations that 
"if Menke does the work it is well done." His 
operations extend all over the west, and he has 
constructed large buildings in Springfield, 
Peoria and other cities. He is the contractor 
for the new depot of the Chicago, Burlington & 
Quincy in this city. His company owns exten- 
sive stone yards and a stone saw mill at the foot 
of State street, and very often a large building 
is sawed out there and then shipped to a distant 
city for erection. 

As a man and a citizen. Mr. Menke possesses 
the most implicit confidence of the whole com- 
munity, and his fellow citizens have taken 
delight in conferring honors upon him He 
served twelve years in the City Council as an 
alderman from the Fourth Ward, and also 
served two years in the county board of super- 
visors. He is a republican in politics, and in 
1892 was a presidential elector. In 1897 Gover- 
nor Tanner appointed him one of the commis- 
sioners of the new insane asylum at Peoria, an 
appointment that was commended all over the 
state, political opponents of the Governor join- 
ing in the general commendation of the wisdom 
of the selection of Mr. Menke. In the spring of 
1899 the republicans urged him to become their 
candidate for mayor, but he declined the honor, 
although the election was practically assured. 

Mr. Menke was married in 1855 to Miss Louisa 
Wulfmeyer, daughter of Henry Wu'.fmeyer, and 
six children have blessed iheir union — Amelia, 
widow of Frank Hagenbruch, William G., 
Edward H., John H., Mrs. Edward Ruff, and 
Fred C. Menke. 



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SAMUEL H. EMERY. Jr. 



Mr. Samuel Hopkins Emery, Jr., is the eldest 
living son ot the Rev. Dr. S. H. Emery, Sr., of 
Taunton, Mass., and inherits many of his fath- 
er's qualities of mind and body. Tall and 
straight as an arrow, of unusually fine pres- 
ence, he is a man who would command attention 
in any assemblage. By reason of his broad and 
comprehensive learning, he is a strong and 
convincing writer and a ready speaker. While 
he holds positive opinions and is frank in ex- 



and was director of the famous Concord School 
of Philosophy during the entii-e term of its ex- 
istence. Deciding to again locate in Quincy, he 
associated himself with the Quincy Paper Co., 
as vice-president. On the organization of the 
American Straw Board Co., in 1889, which ab- 
sorbed the Quincy plant, Mr. Emery became 
manager of the Quincy mills and was after- 
wards made auditor of the American Straw 
Board Co., which position he now holds. He is 




pressing them, he is fair and considerate in all 
things. In business Mr. Emery has been uni- 
formly successful. He was born at Taunton, 
Mass.. Aug. 3, 1840, and after leaving Bristol 
Academy attended Harvard and Amherst Col- 
leges. In 1856 he came to Quincy, where his 
father was then located, and he was for twenty- 
three years identified with the Comstock Stove 
Foundry. In 1879 he returned to Massachusetts, 
taking a course at Harvard Law School and 
devoting his attention to legal practice in Bos- 
ton. In 1882 he received the degree of LL. B. 
from Harvard, the degree of A. M. having been 
conferred on him by Amherst College in 1870. 
While in Massachusetts he resided at Concord 



also president of the Electric Wheel Co. and 
vice-president of the Channon-Emery Stove Co. 
In 1865 he was married to Miss Mary M. Mc- 
Clure, daughter of the Rev. Alexander W. 
McClure, D. D., of Canonsburgh, Pa. They have 
one daughter, Mrs. A. S. Ellis, of this city. 
Business cares rest lightly on Mr. Emery. While 
he has large and important interests to look 
after, he has the faculty of grasping a subject 
quickly and disposing of a vast amount of de- 
tail in a very short time. A generous supporter 
of worthy charities, he gives freely of his means 
to various causes. In all the relations of life 
Mr. Emery is a well rounded, evenly balanced 
man. 



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GEORGE E. RICKER. 

Counted by years, Mr. George E. Ricker is a 
young man, but he is old in business and finan- 
cial experience, and occupies an eminent 
position in the financial world. He is a son of 
Mr. H. F. J. Ricker, one of the pioneers of 
Quiney, and was born in this city November 1, 
1866. After completing his common school edu- 
cation here he attended Pio Nono College, 
Milwaukee, where he graduated high in his 
class. He entered the Ricker National Bank in 
1887 In the bookkeeping department. He is a 
natural banker, and his abilities advanced him 
from one position to another until in 1893 he 
was elected cashier of this, the largest bank in 
the state, outside of Chicago. Since then he has 
had the practical active charge of the vast busi- 
ness of the bank, and has conducted it with 
remarkable judgment and ability. So success- 
ful has been his administration of the affairs of 
the bank that its business has shown a wonder- 
ful increase, now reaching a total of over 
$3,000,000. His methods are careful and conser- 
vative, as he fully appreciates that the savings 
of thousands of people are entrusted to his care, 
but while conscientiously careful he is at the 
same time enterprising and public-spirited, and 
the assistance of the bank is never withheld 
where it can be safely bestowed. He is a far- 



seeing financier, and his sound judgment is 
recognized throughout the financial world. 

Mr. Ricker was married in 1892 to Miss Jose- 
phine Wahl, the eldest daughter of Frederick 
Wahl, Sr., and they have three bright children- 
two sons and a daughter. Their beautiful home 
at Eighth and Spring streets is one of the hand- 
somest in the city, and the interior of it shows 
the rare taste of Mr. and Mrs. Ricker. 

JAMES J. WALSH. 

Born at Lockport, N. Y., Mr. .Tames J. Walsh 
comes of distinguished revolutionary stock, his 
ancestors having been pioneer residents of 
Western New York. He was educated at De 
Veaux College, a military school at Niagara 
Falls, and afterwards attended Hobart College 
at Geneva, N. Y. In 1879 he located at Cincin- 
nati with a jobbing grocery house and two years 
later associated himself with the late T. H. 
.Jackson at Atchison, Kan., in the manufacture 
cf .Jackson's Common Sense Liniment. In 1883 
the business was removed to Quiney, where it 
has since been conducted and has assumed large 
importance. Much of the success of this busi- 
ness is due to Mr. Walsh's original and effective 
methods of advertising, the merits of his medi- 




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cine being strongly presented. During liis resi- 
dence here Mr. Walsh has identified himself 
with every movement for advancing the public 
welfare. While he has devoted himself to his 
business, he has found time to assist in promot- 
ing many Important public enterprises. Pos- 
sessed of tireless energy, methodical in every- 
thing he undertakes, his work is always effec- 
tive and has brought about substantial results. 
His capacity for organization and his executive 
ability have been freely devoted to many impor- 
tant undertakings calculated to promote the 
development of the city and to many worthy 
charitable causes. Mr. Walsh was married at 
Atchison, Kan., in February, 1884, to Miss Jose- 
phine Wills, of that city. 

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EDWIN FREEMAN BRADFORD. 

A descendant of William Bradford, first gov- 
ernor of Plymouth colony and great grandson of 
Captain Samuel Bradford of Connecticut, was 
born in Southbridge, Mass., April 27, 1841. Be- 
ing the son of a farmer he had the ordinary 
advantages of the district school common to all 
the New England farmer boys. Family reverses 
and the death of his mother early compelled 
him to make his own way in the world. After 
serving an apprenticeship at the trade of shoe- 
making he entered Nichols Academy in Dudley. 
Mass., at the age of sixteen. By working at his 
trade on Saturdays, doing farm work in the 
summer, and teaching school in winter, he was 
enabled to work his way through the academy 
in five years. Learning that telegraph opera- 
tors were needed in Illinois he went to Nashua, 
N. H., and spent three months studying telegra- 
phy. 

With letters of recommendation to A. N. 
Towne, then assistant superintendent of the 
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy in Chicago, he 
came to Illinois in November, 1863, and the next 
month commenced work for the Chicago, Bur- 
lington & Quincy at Kewanee. The next year 
he went to Young America as clerk and opera- 
tor. In 1865 he was given the position of sta- 
tion agent at Macomb, where he remained until 
1881. In 18G8 he married Miss Emily M. Prince, 
of Dudley, Mass., who was also educated at 
Nichols Academy, and whose grandfather was 
one of the minute men at the battle of Lexing- 
ton. In 1881 Mr. Bradford was transferred to 
Hannibal in charge of the business of the C, B. 
& Q. and St. L., K. & N. W. railroads. Two 



years later the H. & St. J. business was added 
and his title made general agent. In 1887 he 
was transferred to Quincy, where, besides being 
in charge of the city business of the above men- 
tioned lines, he has charge of the freight and 
passenger business of the Burlington systenl 
through Illinois from Louisiana, Mo., to Bur- 
lington, Iowa. During his twelve years residence 



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here Mr. Bradford has thoroughly identified 
himself with the best interests of the city. He 
has taken an active part in many important 
movements for the public welfare, his keen fore- 
sight, conservative judgment and untiring 
energy making him a strong factor among rep- 
resentative business men. Whatever he under- 
takes is carefully and thoroughly done and he is 
one of the men who bring about results. The 
development in Quincy of the business of the 
great railway system which he represents, 
resulting in the building of the handsome new 
passenger station, the new depot and the new 
system of terminals here, involving the expendi- 
ture of nearly a million dollars, is conclusive 
evidence of his ability as a railway official. Per- 
sonally of a modest, retiring nature, Mr. Brad- 
ford is a strong man in business and a strong 
man in the community. 



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JOSEPH L. MORGAN. 



In the coterie of Quiney's most active and 
public spirited business men Major Joseph L. 
Morgan has held a prominent place for many 
years. Ever ready to do his full share in pro- 
moting every worthy public enterprise, he has 
been identified with every movement for pro- 
moting the general welfare and advancing the 
interests of the city. His efforts are always well 
directed and effective. Major Morgan was born 
at Alton, 111., March 8, 1S43. His father, James 



States for bravery and valor at the battle of 
Nashville. Major Morgan served on the staff of 
General John Newton, General Wagner and 
General Washington L. Elliott and did not leave 
the service until after the close of the war. His 
regiment probably saw as hard and desperate 
service as any command in the Union army. On 
December 12, 1862, four months after he enlisted 
he participated in the battle of Stone River, 
under Rosenkranz, a five-days fight and one of 











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Madison Morgan, came from Baltimore to Alton 
in 1836 and was one of the most prominent of 
the early residents of the town. After securing 
a good common school education the son was 
employed as a salesman at Alton for a time and 
in the fall of 1861 came to Quincy to attend 
school. August 10, 1862. when nineteen years of 
age, he left school to enlist in Company H, 
Seventy-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry and 
was appointed sergeant. On February 28, 1863, 
he was elected first lieutenant of his company 
and the following April was commissioned cap- 
tain. June 14, 1864, he was detached from his 
command and detailed as assitant inspector 
general of the Second Division, Fourth Army 
Corps, Army of the Cumberland, serving in the 
Atlantic campaign. In December, 1864, he was 
breveted major by the president of the United 



the most desperate of the war. The following 
March he participated in the special campaign 
around Franklin, Tenn., and on June 16 started 
on the campaign to drive Bragg out of the state, 
forcing him to the river. In September his com- 
mand assisted in driving the rebels across Look- 
out Mountain to Alpine, Ga., when he recrossed 
the mountain and participated in the desperate 
battle of Chickamauga, September 19 and 20. It 
was in this battle that Mr. C. H. Castle, who was 
in Major Morgan's regiment, was shot rive 
times. On November 23 the Union army moved 
out of Chattanooga and pressed the rebels back 
to the base of Missionary Ridge. Two days later 
the battle of Mission Ridge was fought. Major 
Morgan's command being in the advance line 
of that memorable charge, going up the ridge 
immediately in front of General Bragg's head- 



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quarters and capturing a part of his staff. Soon 
after the division to which Major Morgan be- 
longed, started to relieve Burnside at Knoxville, 
Tenn., marching across the country and finding 
their own subsistence. On that campaign he 
commanded his regiment. In the spring of 1864 
he staited oa the Atlantic campaign, participat- 
ing in the battles of Rocky Face Ridge, near 
Dalton, Ga., New Hope Church, Peach Tree 
Creek, the seige of Atlanta and the campaign 
around Atlanta to Jonesboro. His command 
was on duty night and day from May 3 to Sep- 
tember 8, and was in constant peril. In the fall 
of 1864 he returned to Pulaski, Tenn., to oppose 
Hood's army and assisted in resisting the rebel 
advance from there to Nashville, a distance of 
seventy-two miles, with almost uninterrupted 
fighting for four or five days. His division was 
the rear guard of the army up to Frankljn, 
Tenn. On November 30 the battle of Franklin 
occurred, his division bearing the brunt of the 
engagement. This battle was one of the most 
memorable of the war, thirteen rebel generals 
being killed or wounded and 6 000 rebel soldiers 
killed and wounded. At midnight his command 
marched on to Nashville, where General 
Thomas reorganized his army. December 14 and 
1-5 the battle of Nashville was fought. In the 
afternoon of the second day Hood's army was 
completely routed. Major Morgan's command 
then went into winter quarters at Huntsville, 
Ala., and in the spring of 1865 campaigned in 
East Tennessee until the war closed, being mus- 
tered out of service at Nashville, June 12, 1865. 
In the foregoing the record of this brave officer 
and fearless soldier is too briefly told. At the 
close of the war Major Morgan returned to 
Quincy and secured employment as a clerk. In 
April, 1871, the present firm of Clark & Morgan 
was established at 643 Hampshire street. They 
soon after removed to 422 Maine street, where 
they built up one of the leading bakery and con- 
fectionery and foreign fruit establishments of 
this entire section. Major Morgan was married 
February 7, 1867, to Miss Helen M. Van Doom, 
eldest daughter of the late John K. Van Doom. 

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DICKERSON McAFEE. 

Mr. Dickerson McAfee, president of the 
Thomas White Stove Company, was born at 
Shelbyville, Mo., June 24, 18.48. His boyhood 
was spent in working on a farm and attending 
a district school. When seventeen years of age 
he came to Quincy and secured a position in 
C. A. Richardson's grocery store, in the Rogers' 
building, comer Sixth and Hampshire streets. 
Soon after Richardson & Taylor built the old 
Quincy turnpike, from West Quincy to the 



Fabius bridge, and Mr. McAfee worked for them 
as foreman and timekeeper. He saved enough 
money from his wages to take a complete com- 
mercial course in Bryant & Stratton's business 
college, and in March, 1869, accepted a position 
in Mr. Thomas White's stove foundry as book- 
keeper and shipping clerk. His capacity for 
business at once manifested itself and his 
advancement was rapid, continuing until he has 
become president of the incorporated company. 
In every relation in life Mr. McAfee has the 




courage of his convictions and is characterized 
by thoroughness and attention to details. 
Serving in the City Council of 1895-97, he was 
one of the strongest and most influential mem- 
bers. Every question affecting the welfare of 
the city received his careful attention and his 
services were of far-reaching value. In 1895 he 
was a member of the Board of Education and 
no member of the board ever accomplished more 
for the advancement and development of the 
public schools. He was largely instrumental in 
bringing about needed reforms and elevating 
the standard of the High School and in provid- 
ing additional facilities in several of the school 
districts. He is also a director in the Quincy 
Freight Bureau and was a member of the com- 
mittee of three from that body which was 
instrumental in bringing about the extensive 
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad im- 
provements now in progress here and which 
embrace new passenger and freight depots and a 
new railroad and wagon bridge across the river. 



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JAMES E. ADAMS. 



The life of Major Adams has been an active 
one and has been filled with eventful and highly 
interesting experiences. He was born January 
1.5, 184S, at the southeast corner of Fourth and 
Broadway, the old homestead still standing just 
as it was over fifty years ago. He is a son of 
Mr. James Adams, who died in Quincy June 22, 
1888, and Mary Glentworth Arrowsmith, who is 
still living in this city. His parents were mar- 
ried in Quincy, May 17, 1843, at the residence of 
Mrs. Adams' mother, Fourth and Vermont 
streets, now the Lindsay Church Home. Both 




his father and mother located here in 183!i. Mr. 
James Adams, with his brother, George, built 
the first foundry in Quincy, the first north and 
west of St. Louis, the parent institution of the 
present great foundry business of this city. 
Both were for more than fifty years leading 
business men and Quincy owes much to their 
enterprise and public spirit. After disposing of 
their foundry interests, they engaged in the 
produce business and became the largest ship- 
pers of grain and produce in this vicinity. For 
forty years they were also among the leading 
pork packers of this section of country. Mr. 
Edward Arrowsmith, the maternal grandfather 
of Major Adams, entei'ed a large tract of land 



east of Thirtieth street and north of Broadway 
in 1818. Major Adams was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Quincy and in the Quincy Semi- 
nary. In April, 1864. when sixteen years of age, 
he enlisted in the 137tli Illinois Volunteer In- 
fantry. At the close of the war he accepted the 
position of transfer clerk tor the Great Western 
Dispatch. This was before the railroad bridge 
was built at Quincy and thousands of tons of 
freight was transferred by ferry boat every Jay. 
He was afterwards cashier for the iviercnants' 
Union Express Company and also helped sur- 
vey the Q.. M. & P. Railway. In 1869 he decided 
to go to the southwest and engaged in the bank- 
ing business at Weatherford. Texas, after serv- 
ing as clerk of the Parker County '(Texas) 
circuit court. In 1872 he was appointed post 
trader in the regular army by President Grant 
and was assigned to Fort Griffin, Texas. On 
February 11, 1874, he was married in Weather- 
ford to Mrs. Sallie White Ellison, a daughter of 
Dr. James B. White, of Danville, Ky. Three 
daughters were born to this union. In 1876 
Major Adams located at Edina, Mo., and was 
one of the organizers of tlie Bank of Edina. of 
which he was cashier until 1892. He was com- 
missioner of the United States district court for 
the eastern district of Missouri from 1878 to 
1892 and was a delegate to the republican 
national convention of 1880 from the First 
Missouri District, being one of the 306 who cast 
thirty-six consecutive ballots for the renomina- 
tion of President Grant in that memorable 
convention. For four years he was chairman 
of the First district republican central commit- 
tee and was mayor of Edina for four years. 
During his term as chief executive many impor- 
tant improvements were undertaken and the 
city developed rapidly. He was president of the 
Marcel ine Town and Land Company that 
platted the city of Marceline, Mo., and was pres- 
ident of the Marceline Coal Mining Company 
that sunk the shafts and developed the mines of 
what is now one of the most valuable coal prop- 
erties in the west. In 1892 Major Adams 
returned to Quincy and is now a member of the 
firm of Wells & Adams, extensive mortgage 
bankers. In the last presidential campaign he 
was president of the McKinley club and was 
active in the party organizations. He is now 
vice-chairman of the republican county central 
committee. A man of iron will and great enei'gy. 
Major Adams seldom falls short of success in 
whatever he undertakes. 



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WILLIAM SOMERVILLE. 



Captain William Somerville has had a distin- 
guished career as soldier, internal revenue 
officer and political leader. He was born in 
Pennsylvania August 15,1837. The founder of the 
family in America, James Somerville, emigrated 
from Scotland in 173.5, and settled at Hollidays- 
burg, Pa., which was the family home until 
1850. Captain Somerville's grandfather, James 
Somerville, was a soldier in the revolutionary 
war, and died in 1840, at the venerable age of 90 
years. Captain Somerville's father, James 
Somerville HI., was born in ISOO, and married 
Miss Susan Stover, a native of Maryland, and a 
descendant of Dutch stock. They moved to 
Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois, in 1850, and 
the subject of this sketch, then a boy of 13, came 
with them, settling on a farm. The father went 
to California during the gold excitement, but 
remained only a short time, when he returned 
to Carthage. 

Captain Somerville's early education was ob- 
tained in the public schools. When the civil 
war broke out he responded to President Lin- 
coln's first call for tioops, enlisting May 9, 1861, 
as a private in Company D, Sixteenth Illinois 
Volunteer Infantry. His military title was won 
by gallant services on the battle fields of the 
south. The Sixteenth Illinois was one of the 
famous regiments of the western armies, and he 
was with it constantly until his army service 
was ended by a minnie ball at Bentonville, N. 
C, in 1865. Captain Somerville participated in 
the battle of New Madrid, the operations before 
Island No. 10, the siege and battle of Corinth, 
two battles of Farmington, and fought all 
through the Atlanta campaign, his conspicuous 
bravery winning him commendation from his 
superior officers and successive promotions. He 
was with Sherman on the march to the sea, and 
then up through the Carolinas. His regiment 
was a part of General James D. Morgan's bri- 
gade, which was some distance from the main 
army at Bentonville, N. C, and was there at- 
tacked by a greatly superior force of the enemy. 
The battle lasted all day, and the enemy was 
finally repulsed with great gallantry. It was in 
that engagement that Captain Somerville was 
woundel in the groin by a minnie bullet. 

By the time he had recovered from his wound 
the war had ended, and Captain Somerville then 
entered the internal revenue service, with which 
he was identified for twenty-eight years. He 
attained national distinction in that service, and 
was instrumental in the apprehension of more 



moonshine distillers and crooked employes of 
the government than any other man in the ser- 
vice. An officer of tireless energy and utterly 
fearless, he penetrated the mountain fastnesses 
of the south, the favorite habitat of the moon- 
shiners, and so successful was he in the pursuit 
of illicit distillers th at the moonshiners placed 
a price upon his head and vowed to shoot him if 
they ever got the chance. But Captain Somer- 
ville only laughed at their threats, which, how- 




ever, were In deadly earnest, and there is little 
doubt but that they would have sought venge- 
ance in his death had he given them the oppor- 
tunity. 

As a revenue officer. Captain Somerville trav- 
eled in almost every state in the union, and left 
the service in the spring of 1897 to accept the 
position of superintendent of the Soldiers' Home 
at Quincy, to which he was appointed by Gover- 
nor Tanner. His administration of the affairs 
of that institution has been most successful, 
demonstrating executive ability of the highest 
order. 

Captain Somerville has always been a staunch 
republican, and in 1896 was chairman of the 
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Adams county is a democratic stronghold, but 
in that year it gave a majority for the republi- 
can candidate for president and elected the 
whole republican ticket, for the first time in its 
history. Captain Somerville has made Quincy 
his home since 1S70, his family consisting of his 
wife, son and daughter. The son. James Som- 
erville, is now freight terminal agent of the Chi- 
cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad at St. 
Louis, and the daughter, Miss Carrie Somerville. 
is at home. He is a Mason of high degree, being 
a Knight Templar, and is also prominently iden- 
tified with the Grand Army of the Republic and 
the Loyal Legion. 

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CHARLES H. WILLIAMSON, 

Mr. Charles H. Williamson is one of the seven 
representative democrats of the country to 
whom the sound money movement of the cam- 
paign of 1896 is due and who issued the first call 
for a sound money conference. This movement 
had its inception in Illinois the year previous, 
the keynote being struck by Mr. Williamson at 
the free silver convention held at Springfield. 
He was the chairman of the Adams county dele- 
gation to that convention and was the only del- 
egate who spoke against free silver, his 
address being cut off by a motion for 
the previous question. The large body of 
democrats in the state and the nation 
who favored the gold standard promptly 
effected an organization, in which Mr. William- 
son was a prominent factor. He was the vice- 
chairman of the sound money democratic state 
central committee and chairman of the execu- 
tive committee and on him devolved the active 
management of the campaign. He was also 
secretary of the Illinois delegation to the 
national convention at Indianapolis, of which 
the Hon. .John M. Palmer was chairman, and 
was the chairman of the Illinois delegation at 
both sessions of the Indianapolis monetary con- 
vention. It is fair to assume that the success 
of this memorable movement in the presidential 
campaign of 1896, one of the most important in 
the history of the nation, was largely due to his 
aggressive stand against free silver when that 
issue was first presented and to his constant and 
untiring efforts in the interest of honest cur- 
rency. 

Mr. Williamson is a son of Mr. H. A. William- 
son, and was born in this city September 1, 1862. 
He was the valedictorian of the class of 1882 at 
Racine College, completing the classical course 
and receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
The chair of Latin and the chair of mathematics 



were offered to him, but he preferred active 
business and for two years was associated with 
his father. He then took a post-graduate course 
of four years at Columbia College, New York, 
with the degree of P. H. B. The degree of Mas- 
ter of Arts was subsequently conferred by 
Racine College. In 1888 he returned to Qujncy 
and engaged in the fruit and produce business 
with Mr. Frank Evers, but two years later 
established his present business in the same 




line, in which he has been eminently successful. 
He is one of the three largest shippers of apples 
in the country and is the president of the 
National Apple Shippers' Association. To his 
other titles has been added that of "Apple 
King.'' Mr. Williamson served two years in the 
City Council and was appointed a member of the 
board of education to succeed the late Senator 
Wells. He has held the office of president of 
the Quincy Freight Bureau since its organiza- 
tion, was president of the Humane Society, for 
several years and is still a director and is one of 
the trustees of Woodland Orphan Home. Gov- 
ernor Tanner appointed him one of the Illinois 
commissioners to the Nashville Exposition. A 
ready and brilliant speaker and an ideal presid- 
ing officer. Mr. Williamson is in demand for 
public occasions and has graced many impor- 
tant gatherings and social functions. 



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JOSEPH W. EMERY. 



Mr. Joseph W. Emery, president and treasurer 
of the Channon-Emery Stove Company, is a son 
of the Rev. Dr. S. H. Emery, Sr., and was born 
at Taunton, Mass., November 10, 1850, coming 
to Quincy with his parents in 1855. The Rev. 
Dr. Emery was pastor of the Congregational 
church here from 1S55 to 1869, and has left a 
deep and lasting impress on the community. 
A man of broad culture, an eloquent, impressive 
speaker and a successful organizer, the church 
was exceedingly prosperous under his ministra- 
tions. But his work was not confined to his 
church alone, extending to every movement for 
good among all the people. Shortly after the 
breaking out of the war, extensive army hospit- 
als were established here, hundreds of sick and 
wounded union soldiers being brought to Quincy 
from the camps and battlefields of the south. 
Dr. Emery was not only active in promoting and 
assisting movements for the relief of the sol- 
diers at the front, but also devoted himself 
assiduously to hospital work. He was specially 
commissioned hospital chaplain, ministering to 
the dying and officiating at the burial services 
of nearly every one of the brave men who rest 
in the national burial ground at Woodland. On 
many occasions he assisted in carrying the sick 
and wounded from the steamboats at the levee, 
his kindly heart impelling him to care for their 
physical as well as their religious welfare. Dr. 
Emery has taken a deep interest in historical 
matters. The Old Colony Histor*;al Society 
was organized in his study at Taunton before he 
came to Quincy, and for twenty-five years he 
has been its president. He has been a member 
of the Massachusetts legislature and was also 
appointed by the governor of Massachusetts one 
of the three Old Colony commissioners to locate 
and preserve buildings and sites of historic in- 
terest in the state. During his more recent 
visits to his sons in this city. Dr. Emery was 
instrumental in the organization of the Adams 
County Historical Society. He is still located 
at Taunton, pastor emeritus of the old church 
which he left nearly fifty years ago to come to 
Quincy. Active in mind and body, he is one of 
the leading ministers of his denomination, a 
ripe scholar and thinker. 

After graduating at the Quincy High School, 



Mr. Joseph W. Emery went into the banking 
house of L. & C. H. Bull and later, with Mr. E. 
J. Parker, succeeded to the commercial depart- 
ment of the business, the firm being E. J. 
Parker & Co. Afterwards the commercial and 
savings departments were consolidated and Mr. 
Emery was made cashier. To this important 
and responsible position, this being one of the 
largest private banking institutions in the west, 
outside of the larger cities, he brought rare 




business ability and the confidence of the com- 
munity. In 1881, Mr. Emery, with the late Wil- 
liam V. Channon, organized the stove manufac- 
turing business of Channon & Emery, succeeded 
by the Channon-Emery Stove Company, Mr. 
Emery filling the office of vice-president. Later 
he became president and treasurer of the com- 
pany, which offices he now holds, as well as the 
general direction of this large and important 
business. 



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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




ALEXANDER SHOLL. 

Alexander Mack, a maternal ancestor of Cap- 
tain Shell, came to this country from Germany 
in 1729 and was the founder of the Dunkard 
religion in America. His paternal grandfather 
figured prominently in revolutioDary times and 
the captain inherits from him his unswerving 
loyalty and patriotism. His father, Jacob 
Sholl, left Pennsylvania in 1S.33 to locate at 
Winchester, Ohio, where Captain Sholl was 
born. In March, 1S53. the family removed to 
Hancock County, where the father conducted a 
mercantile business for many years. When the 
war broke out Captain Sholl was given a posi- 
tion as clerk with Colonel Simpson in the quar- 
termaster's department at a salary of $150 per 
month. Soon realizing that the country needed 
fighting men he resigned his lucrative position 
to enlist as a private in Company B, llSth Illi- 
nois Volunteer Infantry. His regiment was in 
the advance at the siege of Vicksburg and saw 
lots of hard service during the early years of 
the rebellion. He earned promotion rapidly, 
being elected second lieutenant and first lieuten- 
ant of his company and in 1863 was commis- 
sioned captain. After the war he engaged in 
the hardware business at Carthage. In 1877 
Captain Sholl was appointed chief clerk of the 
Southern Illinois penitentiary at Chester, which 



responsible position he held until 1885, when he 
went to Minneapolis to engage in business. 
Four years later he returned to Carthage and in 
1893 came to Quincy to engage in the furniture 
business. He is vice-president and treasurer of 
the Cottrell-Sholl Furniture Company, the lead- 
ing concern in this line of business in the city. 
Few men who have come to Quincy in recent 
years have so quickly identified themselves with 
the community. Captain Sholl has the faculty 
of making and retaining friends by reason of 
his frank, generous nature and his disposition 
to assist others. He has a wide acquaintance 
throughout the state and with public men 
throughout the country. 

EDMUND M. BOTSFORD. 

Though still a young man Mr. Edmund M. 
Botsford has held a prominent place among the 
newspaper publishers of Illinois for many years. 
Born at Fishkill. on the Hudson, N. Y., he is a 
son of the Rev. A. P. Botsford, for more than 
sixty years one of the most eminent and schol- 
arly ministers of the Presbyterian church. He 
graduated at Princeton College in 1874, receiv- 
ing the degree of A. B. and was awarded the 
senior prize medal in his class of one hundred 




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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



for the best essay. While his education had 
been directed towards the legal profession he 
early manifested a natural talent tor journalism 
and as a college student did much of the editor- 
ial writing for the Port Jervis Gazette. After 
leaving college he taught school for a time and 
studied law at Rochester, N. Y. In 1879 Mr. 
Botsford located at Rockford, 111., and after con- 
tinuing his law studies accepted an editorial 
position on the Rockford Register, starting the 
first daily newspaper in that thriving city. He 
soon took an interest in the paper, which was a 
pronounced success under his management. Sep- 
tember 23, 1891, he became one of the proprie- 
tors of the Quincy Daily Herald, of which he has 
since been managing editor. Mr. Botsford has 
the faculty of making the kind of newspaper the 
people want and under his direction the Herald 
has become one of the leading, papers of the 
state and a financial success as well. A ready 
and forcible writer, with an unlimited capacity 
for work, he combines to an unusual degree the 
qualities that make up the live, progressive 
journalist of to-day. As president of the local 
board of the Associated Press, the telegraphic 
news business of this section of the state is 
under his direction. He was married August 31, 
1881, to Miss Caroline Butterworth, daughter of 
"Honest Tom" Butterworth, of Rockford, a 
member of the state legislature and candidate 
for state treasurer. They have one son and. one 
daughter. 

JAMES H. CLARK. 

Mr. James H. Clark was born in Ogle County. 
Illinois, in 1846. His father, the late James 
Clark, who died April 8 of the present year, 
lacked but a few months of being 100 years old. 
For many years he was the oldest resident of 
Quincy and one of its most honored citizens. Up 
to the week of his death he was in full posses- 
sion of all his faculties, remarkably well-pre- 
served, mentally and physically. His first vote 
was cast tor James Monroe in 1S20 and he was a 
neighbor and personal friend of General Wil- 
liam Henry Harrison, sharing with the early 
pioneers of Ohio In the Indian wars and the 
privations of the development of the great 
Buckeye state. He also enjoyed the distinction 
of being the oldest Mason in America, if not in 
the world, having become a member of the lodge 
at Sunbury, Ohio, in 1820. Having lived to see 



five generations gathered about him, he passed 
away almost in full vigor, the honored head of a 
long line of worthy descendants. 

After attending Rock River Seminary at 
Mount Morris, 111., Mr. James H. Clark taught 
school in Ogle County for a short time, but came 
to Quincy with his parents in 1863, working in 
his father's grocery store, under the Occidental 
Hotel. He was afterwards shipping clerk for 
F. W. Jansen & Co. and then bookkeeper and 
salesman for Brown Brothers. In 1870 he en- 
gaged in the bakery and confectionery business 





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Morgan was organized. For thirty years Mr. 
Clark has been a prominent figure in commer- 
cial circles. His house has become one of the 
leading confectionery and bakery establish- 
ments of the west and one of the most extensive 
dealers in foreign fruits and nuts. In public 
affairs he has always manifested a lively inter- 
est and he has given freely of his time and 
means for the advancement of Quincy. For 
many years Mr. Clark has been president of the 
board of trustees of the Vermont Street Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church and one of the tiustees 
and most earnest promoters of Chaddock Col- 
lege. 



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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



CHARLES T. DAZEY. 



It is a source of universal pride to the people 
of Quincy that among its many distinguished 
citizens should be numbered one of the most 
eminent and successful dramatic writers of the 
time — Mr. Charles T. Dazey. The plays of this 
noted author are delighting immense audiences 
in Europe as well as in America and his name is 
as familiarly known abroad as it is in his own 
country. "In Old Kentucky" and "The War of 
Wealth" are still delighting and instructing 




audiences, measured only by the capacity of the 
largest theaters, and his other plays have 
proven equally popular. In his dramatic and 
literary work Mr. Dazey is conscientious and 
painstaking to the highest degree. A close and 
remarkably successful student of human nature, 
dominated by the highest motives, his writings 
are not only pure and wholesome, but appeal 
strongly to the people, touching a responsive 
chord in every heart. He has not been influ- 
enced by the constant demands of great actors 
and successful managers, but writes with care 
and deliberation and everything that comes 
from his pen is characterized by the same com- 
pleteness and elegance of finish. Among, the 



dramatic writers of the day there are none more 
eminent or successful and his name will be hon- 
ored in future years. 

Mr. Dazey was born in the town of Lima, in 
this county, August 13, 1855. He is a son of the 
Hon. Mitchell Dazey, for a long term of years 
one of the most prominent farmers of the 
county. His early education was gained in the 
Quincy schools and Johnson College and he then 
went to Lexington, Ky., where he prepared for 
Harvard College, graduating at Harvard in the 
class of 1S81 with honors and receiving the 
degree of A. B. The honorary degree of M. A. 
was afterwards conferred on him by Illinois 
College. After graduating at Harvard he stud- 
ied law at Columbia College, but close applica- 
tion having impaired his health he went to 
Dakota, where he managed an extensive wheat 
farm for some time. When his health was 
restored he gave his entire attention to litera- 
ture. His first play was written while he was at 
Harvard College, a comediette entitled "Rusti- 
cation," which was presented at the Boston 
Museum with more than ordinary success. Mr. 
Dazey's first serious play was "An American 
King," presented by James O'Neil in 1882. It 
was so successful that it brought many commis- 
sions from prominent actors and at once estab- 
lished the reputation of the author. "Erma, the 
Elf," and other plays for Katie Putnam followed 
and "For a Brother's Life," presented by J. M. 
Hill, and "Love Finds a Way," written later for 
Katie Putnam. "In Old Kentucky," the first 
play to give Mr. Dazey an international reputa- 
tion, was written at the Newcomb Hotel in the 
winter of 1891-2. It is now on its seventh season 
in this country, is being presented in England 
and Australia and is to be given in Germany. 
Since it was written no dramatic production 
presented has drawn larger audiences or re- 
ceived more universally favorable comment. 
"The War of Wealth," which followed "In Old 
Kentucky," has been presented in England, is to 
be given in Australia and has proven equally 
popular. "The Tarrytown Widow" and some 
minor writings for the Century and other peri- 
odicals have comprised Mr. Dazey's more recent 
work. Mr. Dazey was married July 12, 1SS7, to 
Miss Lucy H. Harding, and they have one son. 
In the fall of 1896, with his charming and 
accomplished wife he went abroad for a year, 
visiting England, France and Italy, and was 
everywhere received with distinguished honor. 



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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



JONATHAN 

Against far greater than ordinary odds the 
Hon. Jonathan Parkhurst has carved out suc- 
cess in life and has made for himself a promi- 
nent place in commercial and political affairs. 
He was born in Dana, Worcester County, Mas- 
sachusetts. When he was very young his 
parents located at Barre Village and at the age 
of eight years he was employed in a cotton fac- 
tory at 50 cents per week, working twelve and 
one-half hours a day. The second six months 



PARKHURST. 

the spring of his eighteenth year Mr. Parkhurst 
left home and went to Nashua, N. H., where he 
attended school, splitting palm. leaves morning 
and evening to support himself. After leaving 
school he made unsuccessful attempts to secure 
a position as clerk in some of the stores of 
Nashua and Lowell. Finally, in desperation, he 
offered to work six months for a dry goods mer- 
chant at Nashua for the price of his hoard, 
$2.12% per week, and the offer was accepted. 







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his wages were increased ro 75 cents per week. 
At the end of three years' service the factory 
was destroyed by fire and his family removed to 
Munson, North Factory Village, where he was 
employed two years. While working at Barre 
one of the first strikes that ever occurred in this 
country took place, now more than fifty years 
ago. The weavers struck against a reduction in 
wages, but after being out seven days they were 
notified to resume their places within three 
days, under penalty of being blacklisted. They 
went back to work, as there were no unions at 
that time. His time was next divided between 
working on a small farm, which his father had 
taken, and splitting palm leaves for making 
palm-leaf hats, then worn by men and boys. In 



his cash capital at that time being $.5. He re- 
mained in the store two years, when he secured 
employment in a clothing store. At the end of 
three years he bought a half interest in the 
business and the year following became the sole 
proprietor, continuing in the clothing business 
up to the present time. While in Nashua he 
took an active part in public affairs, being twice 
elected to the common council and the second 
term being elected president of the board. He 
was twice elected to the New Hampshire legisla- 
ture, the Hon. William E. Chandler, now United 
States Senator, being speaker of the house dur- 
ing his second term. Then he was elected a 
member of the board of aldermen and one of 
the members of the select men of the ward, 



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RIU'RESKNTATlVi; MK,N AND HOMES. 



being chosen chairman of that body. Mr. Park- 
hurst came to Quincy in Oc^JDer, 1S66, and en- 
gaged in the clothing business on Maine street. 
Before very many years he had become one of 
the leading clothing merchants of this i?ection, 
had built and occupied his present elegant stone 
front business block on Fifth street and had 
acquired a handsome property, to which he is 
constantly adding. He has been frequently 
honored with positions of trust and responsibil- 
ity, twice elected to the board of supervisors, 
has served four years as alderman, has been 
twice elected mayor — the second time without 
opposition — and has been a .nember of the Illi- 
nois legislature. While he was alderman he 
was largely instrumental in bringing about im- 
portant legislation. As chairman of the light 
committee he advocated a reduction in the 
expense of lighting the city and at the same 
time the extension of the lighting district. 
Failing to secure any material concessions from 
the gas company, a contract was made with the 
American Electric Light Company, then just 
commencing business here, for 125 arc lights at 
$135 each per year, at that time the lowest price 
paid in the east or west. Since then the lights 
have been increased in number and i educed in 
price until Quincy is now one of the best lighted 
cities in the entire country. It was t'nrough his 
influence that the unsightly and antiquated 
wooden awnings were removed in the business 
sections of the city, and cattle and hogs were 
prevented from running at large. He also de- 
voted much time and attention to the water 
works question, advocating municipal owner- 
ship of the water system. When Mr. Parkhurst 
went into the mayor's office he was confronted 
by a desperate condition of aflans. The city 
had failed to pay interest on its indebtedness, 
then nearly $2,000,000. mandamus suits were 
piling up in the United States courts, bonds to 
the amount of $150,000 had to be refunded, a 
large floating indebtedness provided for and 
the credit of the city was at the lowest ebb. 
Quincy six per cent bonds were selling on the 
market for 93 and 95 cents. His first efforts 
were to assure the creditors of the city that they 
would get their money, dollar for dollar, and to 
stop the mandamus proceedings, thereby cutting 
oft heavy court costs. To accomplish this he 
advanced his personal credit, pledging nimself 
for a very considerable amount. During his first 
term as mayor he paid off $43,000 in floating and 
past due indebtedness, besides $iy,000 in past 
.lue interest ou M. and M. bonds. That year 
$34,000 was spent on the streets and every de- 
partment of the city government was fully 



maintained. When it came to refunding the 
bonds, the opinion was general that a 4 or 4% 
per cent bond could not be sold. Mr. Parkhurst 
thought differently and the interest rate was 
.fixed at 4% per cent. In August he went to the 
eastern money markets, but received no en- 
couragement whatever, one of the leading 
eastern financiers informing him that what 
Quincy most needed was a guariian. But the 
mayor was not discouraged. On his return home 
he called together the leading financial men of 
the city, but they failed to mature a plan of 
a;;tion, and the mayor devoted his time during 
the fall and winter endeavoring to re-establish 
the credit of the city in the hope of convincing 
the outside world that every obligation of the 
city would be promptly paid, when due, and all 
interest payments met. An annual sinking fund 
of $25,000 was created. When the bids for tno 
bonds were opened in the spring, to the surprise 
of the general public, an offer was made to take 
the entire issue at par with a commission of 
only 2% per cent. During his secot.d term Mayor 
Parkhurst devoted his attentiou to keeping 
down public expenditures and meeting pay- 
ments on the balance of the debt funding bonds 
and other past due obligations. Many manda- 
mus suits were threatened, but not one was 
brought, as he advanced his personal credit to 
the amount of several thousand dollars and pro- 
vided for the payment of every obligation of 
the city. In the two years he paid over $80,000 
in past due obligations and left the city in excel- 
lent financial condition. The present magnifi- 
cent system of public improvements was inaug- 
urated during Mayor Parkhurst's second term, 
the first brick street paving being laid on the 
north and east sides of Washington Park and 
the first sewer building under Article IX. being 
the trunk sewer from the foot of Delaware 
street to the river. The far-reaching impor- 
tance of his services for Quincy, as alderman 
and mayor, cannot be overestimated. 

Mr. Parkhurst was a member of the thirty- 
seventh general assembly, taking part in the 
memorable senatorial contest and being num- 
bered with the famous 101 who brought aoout 
the election of General John M. Palmer to the 
United States senate. He served on several im- 
portant committees in the house, including the 
Soldiers' Home committee. A much larger ap- 
propriation was needed for the Home than had 
previously been made, but the estimate of 
Superintendent Rowland was cut down $35,000 
by the appropriations committee. Mr. Park- 
hurst had always taken a deep interest in the 



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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMEvS. 



Home and at once led the fight in the House to 
secure the increased appropriation. He was 
limited to a five-minute speech, but so well did 
he improve his time and so clearly and forcibly 
did he present his case that the house voted the 
full amount asked for, this being one of the 
notable victories of the session. 

The Soldiers' Home was started when Mr. 
Parkhurst was mayor and he gave freely of his 
time and means to promoting the interests of 
this grand institution. In the summer of 1S87 
he presented the Home a very large United 
States garrison flag. With the late Colonel 
Berry he drove out to the grounds and modestly 
made the presentation to General Lippincott 
and the board of trustees. The beautiful new 
flag was first floated from the headquarters 
building July Fourth of that year and for many 
years was a silent reminder of the friendship of 
the donor. The trustees of the Home, at their 
meeting, July 1, 188V, passed a vote of thanks 
to Mayor Parkhurst for his timely gift, which 
action is a part of the records of the institution. 

Mr. Parkhurst during recent years has de- 
voted considerable time to travel and has visited 
nearly all important points in this country and 
Mexico. While he has large and important 
business interests he finds ample time for all 
matters affecting the general welfare and is one 
of Quincy's most public-spirited, substantial 
citizens. 

ANTONE BINKERT. 

Mr. Antone Binkert is one of the oldest resi- 
dents of Quincy, coming here with his parents 
from Germany in March, 1837, when he was 
less than a year old. When his father reached 
this city his capital consisted of 95 cents, but 
he was of sturdy stock and quickly secured 
work. Soon after he came here he was em- 
ployed in opening Broadway from the river, this 
work being done for a prospective railroad. He 
was afterwards employed for about twenty 
years by Joel Rice in his wholesale iron and 
grocery house, but later engaged in merchandis- 
ing for himself, continuing in business until 
shortly before his death in 1872. When old 
enough to work, Mr. Antone Binkert learned the 
trade of carriage maker in the shop of Mr. 
Weatherwax, which afterward changed hands 
and was finally bought by E. M. Miller, becom- 
ing the foundation for his present factory. He 
then spent three years on the plains, during the 
gold excitement, mining in Colorado during the 
summer. In localities where he prospected in 
the early days some of the richest mines in Col- 



orado have since been discovered. When the 
war broke out he spent three years in the army 
and then returned to Quincy and engaged in 
merchandising, continuing in this business 
until 1877. Mr. Binkert was elected to the City 
Council in 1872, but resigned in the fall of the 
following year to accept the office of city collec- 
tor, in which there was a vacancy. In 1873 he was 
elected collector for a full term. In 1877 he was 
elected county treasurer and re-elected in 1879, 




holding over until 1882 on account of a change 
in the law governing that office. On leaving the 
treasurer's office the real estate, loan and insur- 
ance firm of Binkert & Cruttenden was estab- 
lished, which was continued with uninterrupted 
success until April, 1897, when Mr. Cruttenden 
retired and Mr. George A. Binkert became asso- 
ciated with his father under the firm name of 
A. Binkert & Son. Mr. Binkert was a member 
of the City Council from 1897 to 1899, represent- 
ing the Fourth Ward. During his long residenQe 
in Quincy he has taken prominent part in the 
development of the city. He was interested in 
platting Park Place, one of the finest residence 
sections of Quincy, and also in other notable 
residence additions. He was also one of the 
prime movers in the building of the Newcomb 
Hotel and the Empire Theater, and has been 
identified with many other important public 
enterprises. 



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THEODORE .C. POLING. 



Mr. Poling has established in Quincy a busi- 
ness that is distinctively his own and in which he 
has made a record of remarkable success. It is 
a business in which he pioneered his own way, 
but which has grown to very large proportions. 
Mr. Poling was born in Middletown, N. J., Jan- 
uary 10. 1840. After graduating in the common 
schools he attended Knox College at Galesburg 
and left college to enlist in the 137th regiment 
in the war of the rebellion, also serving in the 



interest. This exceptional record, in itself a 
guarantee of the greatest security, has not been 
a matter of accident. It has been brought about 
by the great degree of care which Mr. Poling 
exercises in his business. He looks up all titles 
and inspects every piece of property on which a 
loan is to be made and by assuring himself of 
every condition affecting the loan protects all of 
his patrons. Mr. Poling has served in the direc- 
tory of the Gas Light and Coke Company and 




73rd regiment. When he came out of the army 
he taught school at Payson for a time and 
studied law. In 1870 he came to this city and the 
law firm of Davis & Poling was organized. In 
1885 this firm was dissolved and Mr. Poling 
established his present savings and loan office 
and mortgage banking business. To this he has 
since devoted his undivided attention. In the 
thousands of loans which he has placed he has 
never had a client who has been obliged to take 
a piece of property on a loan of his making and 
not one of his customers has lost a dollar in 



the Free Public Library and is a director and 
the treasurer of the Graceland Cemetery Asso- 
ciation. He is a director in the Anna Brown 
Home for the Aged and one of the chief organ- 
izers of this grand institution and drew the will 
by means of which it was founded. He is also 
one of the trustees of Blessing Hospital. Mr. 
Poling is a large owner of real estate in Quincy, 
being interested in several of the more impor- 
tant improvements projected during recent 
years. His beautiful home in Lawndale is one 
of the notable residences of the city. 



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J. HERMAN HEIDBREDER. 

By his own unaided efforts and under most 
adverse circumstances in early life, Mr. J. Her- 
man Heidbreder, cashier of the State Street 
Bank, has attained more than ordinary success. 
He was born in Germany, coming to Quincy 
with his parents In 1851. His father, mother 
and three brothers died within nine months 
after his arrival here, and Herman, then a boy, 
was thrown on his own resources. Trouble and 
adversity served to speedily develop the sterling 
qualities that have characterized his life. He 
secured a position with C. H. Bastert, on Ninth 
and State streets, and a year later was employed 
by Mr. Frank H. Kehlenbrink in his dry goods 
and grocery store. In 1863 Mr. Kehlenbrink's 
health failed and so faithful and efficient had 
the young clerk proven that the rapidly growing 
business was turned over to him. Mr. Heid- 
breder continued the business for twenty-two 
years, increasing the trade largely and building 
up an important patronage. In 1885 he engaged 
in the real estate business at Eighth and State 
streets and five years later, with other promi- 
nent business men, started the State Street 
Bank, taking the responsible position of cashier. 
The bank has been successful from the start, 
Mr. Heidbreder having a very wide acquaintance 
throughout the city and county and command- 
ing the highest confidence of the people gener- 



ally. He has always manifested a deep Interest 
in the welfare of the young men and is one of 
the founders and directors of the Young Men's 
Christian Association, the beautiful new build- 
ing on Ninth and State streets being a monu- 
ment to the generous and public spirited men 
who made it possible. He is also one of the 
directors of the public library. 

JOHN W. REED. 

Mr. John W. Reed, the well-known druggist of 
Quincy, was born on a farm in Warren County, 
Illinois, November 19, 1859. His father, Mr. J. 
D. Reed, is a native of Knox County and moved 
to Warren after his marriage. Early in the war 
his father enlisted in the Seventh Illinois Cav- 
alry, commanded by Colonel Edward Prince, 
and served four years and three mouths, partici- 
pating in all of the memorable battles and 
engagements in which that noted command took 
part. For a time he was a prisoner of war in 
Libby prison, but had the good fortune to be 
exchanged the day before a large number of 
union soldiers were transferred to Anderson- 
ville, and returned to his command. During his 
early life Mr. J. W. Reed was employed on the 
home farm. He received a thorough education, 
and in 1878, desiring a more active life, he 




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joinerl the engineering corps of the Santa Fe 
Railway, remaining with the corps in New and 
Old Mexico for three years. He then purchased 
a drug store at Nickerson, Kan., and from there 
engaged in the drug business at Memphis, Tenn. 
In March, 1S93, he came to Quincy and pur- 
chased the Newcomb Pharmacy. In this busi- 
ness he has been remarkably successful, build- 
ing up one of the most important drug stores in 
the city. Early this year his brothers, L. C. and 
F. G. Reed, became associated with him and a 
second place of business, the elegant drug store 
at Fifth and Hampshire streets, one of the 
handsomest in the west, was opened. Mr. Reed 
is of an active temperament, throwing his great 
energy into everything he undertakes, and is 
well calculated to succeed. He is worshipful 
master of Lambert Masonic lodge and in 
Masonic circles, as well as in business, is uni- 
versally popular. 

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EDWARD SOHM. 

In the large and more important commercial 
and financial interests of Quincy few men 
occupy a more commanding position than Mr. 
Edward Sohm. While he has met with more 
than the ordinary degrees of prosperity his suc- 
cess is his own, and he has made for himself a 
name in the commercial world, which is as 
highly honored in the business centers of the 
east as it is here at home. Mr. Sohm was born 
at the old family homestead on Third and York 
streets, in this city, October 2, 184.5. His hon- 
ored mother, who is still living, is one of the 
oldest residents of Quincy, having come here in 
1834, and his father, Mr. Pantaleon Sohm, 
located in this city six years later. He passed 
away in 1885, leaving a good name and the 
record of a well-spent life. Edward was pre- 
pared for college under private tutors, receiving 
a careful and comprehensive education. When 
nineteen years of age he taught German for a 
time and then took charge of St. Boniface 
school. Deciding to engage in commercial busi- 
ness he resigned this position and accepted a 
place in the queensware house of Mr. Henry 
Ridder in 186.5. Three years later he was 
admitted to partnership, continuing a member 
of the firm of H. Ridder & Co. until January 1, 
1884. Then the firm of Sohm, Ricker & Weisen- 
horn was organized, doing business for ten 



years where Hill's carpet store is now located. 
The business prospered from the first and in 
1894 the firm occupied their present extensive 
queensware house, built expressly for them, 
and one of the largest and finest in the entire 
country. Their wholesale trade reaches into all 
the territory tributary to Quincy, this house 
being one of the most important in their line in 
the west. Mr. Sohm was one of the first direc- 
tors of the Ricker National Bank and was presi- 




dent fi'om 1884 to 1897, when he exchanged 
offices with Mr. H. P. J. Ricker, being now vice- 
president. He was one of the organizers of the 
Quincy Freight Bureau and its treasurer, treas- 
urer of the Fireman's Benevolent Institution 
and president of the Germania Printing Com- 
pany. In every movement of public importance 
he is one of the most effective workers and most 
valued advisors. Though repeatedly tendered 
prominent public offices he has steadfastly 
refused, devoting himself entirely to business 
and to the upbuilding of his native city. To the 
welfare of Quincy he has always contributed 
more than his full share. Mr. Sohm was mar- 
ried in 1868 to Miss Mary Barbara Helmer and 
they have three sons and two daughters. 



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JESSE E. WEEMS. 
Very few men in this locality have had more 



to do with railroad building and development in 
this section than Mr. Jesse E. Weems. He was 
born on a farm in Virginia, August 21, 1831, and 
comes of an old and eminent family. His grand- 
father, Mason Lock Weems, was the pastor of 
the church at Mount Vernon, which President 
George Washington attended, and who wrote 
the original life of Washington, the first to 
record the story of the cherry tree. When eigh- 



Quincy to Palmyra. Stephen Holmes was the 
first president and the road was afterwards sold 
to officials of the Wabash and later became a 
part of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railwaj'. Mr. 
Weems was county surveyor of Hancock 
County for two years, and afterwards built the 
Illinois & Southern Iowa Railway, from Clayton 
to Keokuk, which was later consolidated with 
the Wabash Railway. In 1S65 he accepted a 
position as passenger conductor on the Wabash, 



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teen years of age, Mr. Jesse E. Weems went to 
Washington to complete his education as an 
engineer. He then went out with the boundary 
line commission which located the division be- 
tween the United States and Mexico, this being 
his first engineering work. In 1853 he came 
west and located at Augusta, in Hancock 
County, being engaged as engineer on the 
Northern Cross Railroad, of whicb the lato 
Nehemiah Bushnell was president. He was 
employed on what was called the middle divis- 
ion, between Camp Point and Macomb. In 1859 
he built the Quincy & Palmyra road, from West 



which he held until 1893. Few men on the 
entire system were better known and none were 
more popular with the traveling public or more 
highly regarded by the officials. After resign- 
ing his railroad position, he engaged in the ice- 
making business in Texas, but in 1894 returned 
to Quincy to take the active management of the 
Pure Ice and Cold Storage Company of this city, 
in which his two sons are interested with him. 
Mr. Weems carries his honors with the greatest 
degree of modesty and few outside the circle of 
his older and most intimate friends know that 
he figured so prominently in the early develop- 
ment of this section. 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



MILTON K, AND FRANK H. WEEMS. 



Though among the younger of the representa- 
tive business men of Quincy, Messrs. Milton K. 
and Frank H. Weems are among the most prom- 
inent and successful. In less than twenty years 
they have built up the most important laundry 
business in the west and an extensive artificial 
ice and cold storage industry. They are the sons 
of Mr. Jesse E. Weems. Mr. Milton K. Weems 
was born on a farm near Augusta, in Hancock 
County, December 1, 1859, and came to Quincy 




in June, 187u. His first work as a boy was car- 
rying newspapers. In September, IS77, he went 
into the banking house of L. & C. H. Bull, 
remaining there nearly two years, when he 
decided to go into the laundry business. Mr. 
Frank H. Weems was born in Keokuk, May 21, 
1862, and came to Quincy in June, 1870. Like 
his brother, he was a newspaper carrier for a 
time and then took a position on Swope's farm, 
leaving the farm to join in the laundry venture. 
The wheels of the laundry were started for the 
first time July 4, 1879, in the small building on 
Jersey street, east of Seventh. From a very 
modest beginning, with but little capital, the 
business grew rapidly and in 1888 they pur- 
chased the property and built the present build- 
ing on Fifth and Jersey streets, one of the 
largest and most completely equipped laundry 
establishments in the entire country. Seven 



years ago extensive dye works were added to the 
laundry business. In 1894 the Pure Ice Com- 
pany was started, suitable buildings being built 
on South Front street, a number of artesian 
wells being sunk to insure an abundant supply 
of pure water. This industry grew as rapidly 
as the laundry business. New buildings have 
been added, including large cold storage ware- 
houses, and the plant now has a capacity for 
making thirty-five tons of ice per day and stor- 




age capacity for 30,000 barrels. Side tracks lead 
direct to the buildings. Mr. Milton K. Weems 
is president of the Weems Laundry Company, 
of Quincy and Springfield, 111., a large laundry 
having been established in the latter city, and 
he is treasurer of the Pure Ice Company. Mr. 
Frank H. Weems is president of the Pure Ice 
Company and secretary and treasurer of the 
Weems Laundry Company. Together the two 
brothers own the extensive dye works. Last 
fall the coal business was also taken up and has 
proven most successful. Starting in business 
before they had attained their majority, the 
remarkable success of Messrs. Milton and Frank 
Weems has not been a matter of accident. They 
have earned their good fortune by reason of 
those qualities from which successful men are 
made, and they are universally respected by rea- 
son of their sterling worth. 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




J. W. CASSIDY. 

The development of the business of the Cas- 
sidy Commission Company, of which Mr. J. W. 
Cassidy is the president and the active manager, 
has been phenomenal. In less than five years 
he has built up the largest business of this kind 
in the United States, outside of the leading 
commercial centers, an enterprise creditable 
alike to Quincy and to the man who has created 
it. Mr. Cassidy was born on a farm in Kanka- 
kee County, Illinois, January 20, 1865, his 
father being a native of New York. He enjoyed 
the advantages of a common school education 
and when nineteen years old went into the nur- 
sery business as a salesman on the road. In 
this he was so successful that in three years he 
purchased an interest in the business, which he 
carried on until he came to Quincy In 1894 to 
embark in the commission business. At the 
outset the otiices of the company were equipped 
with direct private wires to the grain, provision 
and stock exchanges of Chicago, St. Louis and 
New York, the same facilities being afforded 
patrons as are provided in the larger cities. The 
business was successful from the start. As the 
patronage increased branch offices were estab- 
lished in a number of other cities and at the 
opening of the present year the Cassidy Com- 
mission Company was incorporated with a 
capital of $100,000, some of the leading business 



men of the city becoming interested in the com- 
pany. Mr. Cassidy is a member of the Chicago 
Board of Trade and the St. Louis Merchants' 
Exchange. His home in Quincy, on Locust 
Boulevard, is one of the most elegant and spa- 
cious suburban homes in Central Illinois. A 
public-spirited and progressive business man, 
he has taken an active interest in the develop- 
ment of the park and boulevard system and is a 
liberal supporter of all worthy charitable and 
public enterprises. 

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CHARLES C. OSBORN. 

Mr. Charles C. Osborn, president of the Quincy 
Coal Company, was born in Waverly, Ohio, Jan- 
uary 19, 1842, and came here with his parents in 
1846. His father, the late H. S. Osborn, was a 
member of the firm of Wheeler, Osborn & Co., 
which operated the old Eagle Mills at Front and 
Broadway, and later the extensive plant of the 
same came on Broadway and Second street. He 
was also president of the Quincy Coal Company, 
a director in the gas company and the First 
National Bank. For a long term of years he 
was one of the most prominent business men of 
the city, active in every public enterprise and 
his contributions to worthy charitable causes 
were most liberal. When failing health com- 




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pelled him to retire from active business he 
located at San Diego, Cal., where he died No- 
vember 24, 1895. His son Charles learned the 
milling business in the old Eagle Mills and con- 
tinued in this business until he identified him- 
self with the Quincy Coal Company in 1S75 and 
finally succeeding his father as president. He 
is also interested in the coal mines at Lewis- 
town and Farmington. He is a worthy succes- 
sor of an old and honored citizen. Mr. Osborn 
has been for many years a trustee of the Ver- 
mont Street M. E. Church and one of its most 
active and liberal supporters. 

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GEORGE C. PARKHURST. 

Though one of the younger of the representa- 
tive business men of Quiney, Mr. George C. 
Parkhurst enjoys the distinction of having held 
commissions from four of the governors of Illi- 
nois. His first commission was issued by Gov- 
ernor Oglesby as second lieutenant of Company 
D, Illinois National Guard, and his final promo- 
tion was to the position of colonel on the staff 
of Governor Altgeld. In early life he developed 
a liking for military affairs and unusual ability 
as an organizer and commander. After com- 
pleting a comprehensive common school educa- 
tion he attended the military academy at 
Orchard Lake, Mich., acquitting himself with 
honors in that noted school. On returning to 
Quincy he enlisted as a private in Company D, 
but within two weeks after enlisting he was 
appointed sergeant. Other promotions followed 
until he was commissioned first lieutenant, 
which office he resigned when he engaged in 
liusiness in the east. In 1893 he was appointed 
a member of Governor AUgeld's staff, and com- 
missioned colonel, serving as secretary and 
treasurer of the staff organization. With Gov- 
ernor Altgeld he participated in all of the nota- 
l)le functions in Chicago during the World's 
Columbian Exposition, the dedication of the 
soldiers' monuments at Chattanooga, the laying 
of the corner stones of state institutions at 
Peoria, Charleston and Rock Island and also 
served during each of the state encampments at 
Springfield. In his younger days he was drum 
major of the first democratic drum corps, an 



organization that became famous throughout 
the west for its elegant and striking uniform, its 
wonderful drill and its stirring martial music. 

Nearly all of his business life Mr. Parkhurst 
has been identified with the extensive clothing 
house of his father, the Hon. Jonathan Park- 
hurst. In 1890 he went to Springfield, Mass., as 
business manager of a large factory devoted to 
making ladies' gowns, but he returned to 
Quiney in February, 1891. In 1895 the Park- 




hurst-Duker Clothing Company was organized 
and he became secretary and treasurer. Febru- 
ary 1, 1898, the title was changed to the Park- 
hurst Clothing Company, of which he is still 
secretary and treasurer. Active and progres- 
sive in business and in public affairs lie is one 
of the younger business men who is making the 
Quincy of to-day. Mr. Parkhurst was married 
April 26, 1892, to Miss Margaret Zoe Haselwood 
and their beautiful home on East Maine street 
is one of the finest of the modern residences of 
the city. 



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VOLK, JONES & McMEIN. 



Within a very few years Messrs. Volk, Jones 
& McMein have built up one of the largest and 
most important printing, publishing and blank 
book making houses in the entire west. In 
April, 1883, Messrs. A oik and Jones bought out 
the job printing business of the Wiiig. At that 
time the equipment consisted of one cylinder 
and one Gordon press and a limited quantity of 
type. In 1886 they were joined by Mr. McMein. 
Not long after they removed to the second floor 



CORNELIUS G. VOLK. 

Mr. Volk was born in Rock Island, 111., March 
30, 1858. His father had then been a resident 
of Quincy for ten years, but was temporarily 
located with his family at Rock Island and re- 
turned here soon after. The late C. G. Volk, 
Sr., was a noted sculptor, his designs for 
the Lincoln and Lovejoy monuments and 
the statue of Governor Wood gaining for 





CORNELU'S G. VOLK. 

of the Powers' building, where their entire office 
was destroyed by fire in May, 1897. The day of 
the fire they leased their present large three- 
story and basement building on Hampshire 
street, and to-day they have new cylinder and 
platen presses, a linotype or type-casting 
machine, a full complement of new print- 
ing material and a very large and fully equipped 
book bindery and blank book factory. It is an 
establishment that would do credic to Chicago 
or St. Louis, and the work which they turn out 
is exceeded by very few offices in the larger 
cities in volume or in quality. The lives of these 
three men have been closely identified with each 
other. In boyhood they worked together, their 
young manhood was spent in the same office 
and they have been associated with each other 
all of their active business lives, each contribu- 
ting his full share to building up the extensive 
house which they now conduct. 



GERALD F. JONES. 

him a national reputation. He died only last 
year, but he has left behind him enduring monu- 
ments that have made his name famous. In 
June, 1873, the boy secured a minor position in 
the business department of the Whig. He was 
zealous and faithful and was advanced to the 
position of collector and then became book- 
keeper. The ordinary amusements of boyhood 
had but little attraction for him and when still 
young he assumed responsibilities far beyond 
his years. When he bought out the Whig jot) 
printing department in 1883, with Mr. Jones, 
neither was satisfied with the patronage that 
came to them, but both worked zealously for 
larger and better things. Both he and his asso- 
ciates in business fully .merit the success they 
have gained. Mr. Volk was married September 
21, 1882, to Miss Emma P. Corley. Their only 
son, William C. Volk, is now a student at Knox 
Academy, at Galesburg. 



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QERjVLD F. JONES. 

Mr. Gerald F. Jones was born in Quincy, Janu- 
ary 21, 1859. His father, the late W. C. Jones, 
was engaged in steamboating for many years on 
the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and located in 
Quincy in the early '50s. When ten years of ago 
Gerald took a position as carrier boy in the 
Whig office. As a boy he .was a remarkably 
rapid worker and was absolutely trustworthy 
and reliable. He could fold more papers than 
any other carrier. He had the longest route. 



■«aLr,IAM II. McMEIJs. 

Mr. William H. McMein was born in New 
York City February 9, 1860, and came to Quincy 
with his parents in 1865. His first work was 
that of carrier boy in the Whig office. When 
fourteen years old he commenced learning the 
printer's trade in the Whig newsroom and as 
soon as he had served his time was given the 
advertising cases. An expert printer, trust- 
worthy and reliable, he soon became foreman of 




WILLIAM n. McMEIN. 



and there were never any complaints from his 
subscribers. When his schooling was com- 
pleted he learned the printing trade in the Whig 
job rooms. He mastered every department of 
the printing business and was expert in them 
all. With him it was never how much he could 
save himself, but rather how great an amount 
of work he could turn out. The habit of untir- 
ing industry formed when he was a boy has 
characterized his after life and has made him 
a power in whatever he undertakes. He has 
devoted himself to the business with which he 
is identified and has contributed his full share 
towards making his extensive printing house 
and bindery one of the most important in the 
west. Mr. Jones was married October 9. 1883, 
to Miss Harriet P. Corley, and they have one 
daughter. 



the newsroom and later telegraph editor. 
Peculiarly fitted for newspaper work, a rapid 
and successful writer, he took up the work of 
the city editor's department and would have 
become managing editor of the paper if he had 
not joined Messrs. Volk and Jones in the job 
printing business in 1886. In his present busi- 
ness as printer and publisher his extended news- 
paper experience is of the greatest value to him. 
Mr. McMein was elected alderman of the Seventh 
Ward in 1S97 and re-elected last spring. He 
has served most acceptably on the auditing 
committee, the board of health and the commit- 
tee on streets. He was married January 6, IS86, 
to Miss Lydia E. Warfleld, daughter of Mr. W. 
S. Warfield, and they have one daughter and 
one son. 



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CHARLES AND DAVID STERN. 



The very large and important business of 
Joseph Stern & Sons was inaugurated by Mr. 
Charles Stern when he was only sixteen years of 
age. He was born in Richmond, Va., February 
10, 1S51. Going to New York with his father 
when he was quite young he enjoyed excellent 
educational advantages, attending the public 
schools, Saxk Institute and Bryant & Stratton'a 
Commercial College. He worked in a wholesale 
clothing house in New York for a few months. 



college. January 1, 1871, he came to Quincy 
to go into the clothing store, then fairly 
established. He was also young, but was not 
lacking in every business requirement. The 
two brothers devoted their entire time to their 
business. They carefully studied the wants 
of the trade, meeting every requirement and 
gradually elevated the standard of ready-made 
clothing. In 1876 Mr. David Stern became 
a partner in the business. From the start the 





CHARLES STERN. 



DAVID STERN. 



but in February, 1867, his father decided to open 
a clothing store in Quincy and placed it in 
charge of his son. the father spending most of 
his time in New York looking after his eastern 
interests and making occasional visits to his 
store in the west. The boy was young in years 
for so responsible a trust, but he at once devel- 
oped remarkable business capacity and unusual 
ability. He made the people his personal friends 
and fully identified himself with his new home. 
The venture was successful from the start, the 
business grew rapidly, and in 1872 Mr. Charles 
Stern was admitted to partnership. 

Mr. David Stern was born in Richmond May 
9, 1855, and, like his brother, attended the 
public schools, private school and business 



growth of this house has been rapid and unin- 
terrupted until now Mr. Charles and David 
Stern are generally recognized as among the 
largest and most successful merchants in the 
west. They are still young men, but they have 
one of the largest and finest business blocks in 
this section, where they conduct the clothing, 
merchant tailoring, shoe and gents' furnishing 
trade. Their business house is a credit to their 
push and energy and a credit to Quincy. In all 
matters of public enterprise they are among the 
first and most liberal contributors, and they 
have done their full share in the development of 
the city. Mr. Joseph Stern, the senior member 
of the firm, still resides in New York, an hon- 
ored and respected citizen. 



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GEORGE H. STAHL. 

Mr. George H. Stahl, manufacturer of the 
Excelsior Incubator, and one of Quincy's most 
successful business men, is self-made, and his 
success has been achieved in a very short term 
of years. He was born in Virginia City, Nev., 
February 29, 1864, a son of Mr. Solomon Stahl. 
Coming here with his parents two years later, 
he was given a thorough common school and 
commercial education and then worked for his 
father in the fruit and produce business. He 
early developed mechanical and inventive 
genius and turning his attention to artificial 
incubation, then coming into considerable prom- 
inence, in 1886, placed the Excelsior incubator 
on the market. The first two years were full of 
discouragement. The great masses of the peo- 
ple had never before heard of hatching eggs by 
artificial means and had to be educated. Hav- 
ing full confidence in his project, however, Mr. 
Stahl redoubled his efforts. The third year he 
was rewarded by a large business, which has 
increased steadily each succeeding year. He 
now has a five-story factory building of his own, 
devoted exclusively to the manufacture of incu- 
bators, and the Excelsior is sold and used in 
every country on the globe where artificial incu- 
bation is practiced. Mr. Stahl is as popular as he 
is prominent. While he is a man of decided opin- 
ions of his own and a busy man at all times, he 
is always approachable. His charity is dis- 
pensed with a most generous hand and he is a 
firm friend and liberal supporter of every 
worthy cause. 



L. B. BARTLETT, 

Mr. L. B. Bartlett, secretary and treasurer of 
the Quincy Casket Company, was born in this 
city October 11, 1862. As a boy he was ambitious 
for a business career and started out early in 
life. His first work was in the office of the 
Bradstreet Commercial Agency when Mr. James 
A. Parkins was the Quincy agent. Then he 
worked for a time for Clark & Morgan, packing 
crackers. At sixteen he had arrived at full man- 
hood and was fully competent for a man's work. 
Accepting a position as bookkeeper in the 
wholesale hat and cap house of Wood Brothers, 
he remained with them until they retired from 
business. He afterwards filled similar respon- 
sible positions with the Turner Tobacco Com- 
pany, the Union Bank, Cincinnati Coffin Com- 
pany and Isaac Lesem & Co., and on November 
1, 1885, was one of the organizers of the Quincy 
Casket Company. The business was immedi- 
ately successful and by reason of push and 
energy this house has become one of the most 
Important in this line of trade in the entire 
west. Mr. Bartlett is characterized by close and 
constant application to busineiss and has made 
for himself an enviable position in the commer- 
cial world. He was married November 19, 1885, 
to Miss Letitia Trowbridge, and they have two 
promising sons, Richard Sylvester and Bennett 
Watson. 




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FREDERICK W. HALBACH. 

Mr. Frederick W. Halbach was born in Prus- 
sia in 1S47. His father was a ptiysician, and lie 
was given a tliorough collegiate education. In 
his eighteenth year he decided to come to 
America, and for two years was engaged in the 
dry goods business in New York. In 1866 he 
came to Quincy and engaged in the same line, 
and in 1873 the present firm of Halbach & 
Schroeder was organized, opening a store where 
the Tenk Hardware Company is now located. 
At the end of the first year they removed to the 
Benneson block, where they remained for 
twenty-five years. During the present spring 
they occupied their present quarters, the four- 
story and basement Powers' building, corner 
Sixth and Maine streets. The business career 
of Mr. Halbach has been one of uninterrupted 
advancement. He is a fair type of a prosperous, 
successful merchant. His undivided attention 
has been devoted to his business, which has 
grown steadily year by year. The requirements 
of the public have been carefully studied and 
each season they have been fully supplied. 
Each year the business of the firm of which he 
is the head, has shown a substantial Increase, 
their facilities have been enlarged from time to 
time, until they now have one of the largest and 
finest houses in their line in any western city. 
Mr. Halbach stands for everything that is 



reliable and responsible and is one of Quincy's 
most prominent and successful business men. 
He was married in 1870 to Miss Fredericke 
Kespohl, and they have five daughters and three 
sons. Their spacious home on East Maine 
street always affords a most hospitable welcome 
to their many friends. 

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LEWIS B. BOSWELL. 

Out of his own unaided efforts and under more 
than ordinary adverse circumstances, Mr. Lewis 
B. Boswell, has carved his success. He was 
born in New Orleans September 15, 185-5. His 
father, T. C. Boswell, was one of the pioneer 
steamtoatmen on the lower river and was 
widely known in the early days. His mother, 
nee Georgiana Davis, was one of the most 
beautiful and brilliant women of the south. Her 
broad culture, happy disposition and kindly 
charity made her a universal favorite, and her 
death in this city in 18SS was most sincerely 
mourned. In 1866, soon after the death of his 
father, Mr. Lewis Boswell came to Quincy with 
his mother and younger sister. Adversity made 
it necessary for him to early provide for the 
family support, and when fourteen years of age 
he obtained a position in the Dollar Store. Three 
years later he went into the office of the Vandi- 




REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND^HOMES. 



ver Corn Planter Company as office boy and 
commenced the earnest work of his life. De- 
voted only to his work and to his mother and 
Bister, he made rapid advancement, securing the 
position of bookkeeper, and in 1880 was elected 
secretary of the company. In 1893 he was made 
manager and in 1895 became president, holding 
the latter responsible office until the business of 
the company was closed out. In the fall of 1897 
he was elected commissioner of the newly 
organized Quincy Freight Bureau and in that 
position he has been a power for good for 
Quincy. A man of fine presence, a ready 
speaker and a close writer, he has a thorough 
and comprehensive practical knowledge of every 
department of the freight business. Under his 
administration many evils and discriminations 
against Quincy shippers have been corrected, 
and from a railroad standpoint the interests of 
the city have been very materially advanced. 
Mr. Bos well is one of the incorporators of the 
newly organized Quincy Belt Line & Terminal 
Company. February 12, 1896, Mr. Boswell was 
married to Miss Nora Roland, of Kansas City, 
and they have one son and one daughter, Dora- 
thy and Roland. 

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RUDOLPH TENK. 

Mr. Rudolph Tenk, one of the most capable 
and successful of the younger business men of 
Quincy, was brought up in the extensive busi- 
ness in which he has become a most important 
factor. He is a son of Mr. Henry Tenk and was 
born in this city April 2, 1872. As a boy he 
manifested far more than ordinary ability for 
mercantile work and when thirteen years of age 
took a position in the hardware house of H. & 
J. H. Tenk. He was advanced step by step, 
thoroughly learning every department of the 
extensive wholesale and retail business. When 
the Tenk Hardware Company was incorporated 
in 1891 he was made a director and later was 
elected secretary. The development of the busi- 
ness has been rapid, until this is now one of the 
most important wholesale hardware houses in 
the west. The main building was rebuilt and 
materially enlarged in 1891 and in 1894 a large 



wholesale warehouse was built in the rear. 
With the increasing demand for electrical goods 
and electrical supplies an electrical department 
was added six years ago, which is under the 
personal direction of Mr. Tenk and which has 
become one of the features of the business. He 
is the pioneer in this line of work in Quincy and 
installed the first electric elevator here, and at 
St. Francis College put in the first electric light- 
ing plant operated by a gasoline engine. The 




electric work for St. John's Church, the large 
business block of the Halbach-Schroeder Dry 
Goods Company and other notable work of this 
character was put in under his direction. Mr. 
Tenk now does all of the buying for the com- 
pany in all departments and is considered 
authority in everything pertaining to the hard- 
ware and electrical trade. A man of unusually 
fine appearance and address, he is as popular as 
he is efficient in business circles. He was mar- 
ried November 21, 1894, to Miss Anna Hagel, of 
Mount Sterling, 111., and they have two daugh- 
ters. 



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BERNARD H. MILLER. 

Mr. Bernard H. Miller is an energetic repre- 
sentative of the active business men of Quincy, 
a splendid exemplar of the hustling, enterpris- 
ing business spirit which has made this city one 
of the most beautiful and progressive towns in 
the entire west. He was born at Norden, Ger- 
many, .January 4, 1S48, and the year following 
his parents came to this country, remaining in 
New Orleans for a short time and locating in 
this city April 15, 1850. His first work was sell- 
ing newspapers during the war on the McCune 
line of packets. March 1, 1864, he secured a 
place in the drug store of Adolph Zimmerman 
at .'>04 Hampshire street, but the following fall 
obtained a position in the laboratory of Jacob S. 
Merrill, in St. Louis, and was later employed by 
E. J, Williamson, in the same city. He was one 
of the original members of the St. Louis College 
of Pharmacy. In 1866 he returned to Quincy to 
accept the position of pharmacist with Ruther- 
ford, Hurlbert & Co., afterwards Sommer & 
Metz, and three years later associated himself 
with the late George Terdenge and purchased 
the drug store at Ninth and Broadway. In 1874 
the firm of Sommer, Miller & Terdenge was 
formed and the present store at 502 Maine street 
was opened. The year following, Mr. Albert 
Sellner became interested in the business, Mr. 
Sommer retiring, On January 1, 1884, Mr. W. 



H. Arthur bought out Mr. Terdenge's interest, 
and on January 1, 1889, Messrs. Miller & Arthur 
became the sole proprietors. Mr. Miller is one 
of the most active of the public-spirited business 
men of the city. He was one of the organizers 
of the original board of commerce, a member of 
the committee that organized the great demon- 
stration when the Soldiers' Home was dedicated, 
was chairman of the executive committee that 
conducted the memorable fall celebration in 
1887 when the treasury showed a balance of over 
$1,500, and he has been active in organizing 
nearly every public demonstration held in 
recent years. Mr. Miller was married June 6, 
1872, to Miss Harriet Hanshall, of this city, and 
they have two daughters and one son. 

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WILLIAM H. ARTHUR. 

Mr. William H. Arthur was born in this city 
January 16, 1852. His father, the late James 
Arthur, was one of the early settlers of Quincy 
and for more than fifty years was one of the 
most highly honored citizens. Largely engaged 
in the pork packing and sawmill business for a 
long term of years, he was widely known as a 
successful and prosperous business man. Of a 
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was universally loved and respected. He passed 
away in February of the present year at the 
venerable age of eighty-seven years and his 
death is mourned in many homes. His son, 
William H., is much like his father, possessing 
his self-reliance, genial nature, close application 
and sterling business qualities. After complet- 
ing his common school education he attended 
Knox College, but being desirious of engaging in 
active business went into the book store of Day- 
ton & Arthur, having the office management of 
their large wholesale and retail business. Later 
he accepted a position of trust with Gardner & 
Robertson at their hardware store and when 
they sold their hardware business he became 
office manager at their extensive factory. In 
1879 Mr. Arthur went to Atchison. Kan., where 
he engaged in the book and stationery business 
with his brother, Newman, meeting with the 
greatest degree of success. In 1883 he returned 
to Quincy and purchased an interest in the drug 
business, with which he has since been identi- 
fied, the firm being Miller, Arthur & Sellner. In 
18S8 the interest of Mr. Sellner was purchased 
and the firm has since been Miller & Arthur. 
During this long and successful partnership, Mr. 
Arthur has had charge of the financial depart- 
ment of the business, for which he is eminently 
fitted. Like his father he has never sought pub- 
lic office, attending carefully to business and his 
heavy wholesale and retail drug trade Is the 
best evidence of his success. 

ELIJAH D. YOUNG. 

In the early days in Quincy Mr. John Byrd 
Young, father of Mr. E. D. Young, was one of 
the noted men of the west. He was connected 
with the Byrd. Boone and others of the most 
prominent families of Kentucky and located in 
this city in 1836. Purchasing a considerable 
tract of land near Third and Hampshire streets 
he built the Virginia Hotel on the corner where 
the Schott buildings now stand, at that time the 
most desirable location in the city. For many 
years this was the leading hotel of this entire 
section of country and sheltered many of the 
eminent men of the day. Back of the hotel Mr. 
Young built the first livery stable in Quincy. 
He was famous as a trader and took boat loads 
of horses and mules to New Orleans, bringing 
back sugar and molasses. He also built the first 



stove and tin store in Quincy, located where the 
First National Bank building now stands. Mr. 
Young died during the fearful cholera epidemic 
of 1852. Mrs. Young, a descendant of an old 
Pennsylvania Dutch family and a woman of rare 
culture and refinement, lived to the advanced 
age of 85 years and died three years ago. After 
completing a comprehensive education Mr. E. D. 
Young took a position as traveling salesman for 
the wall paper, paint and oil house of D. E. 
Lynds. In 1875, with his brother, John B., he 




bought out the business and the firm of Young 
Brothers was established, having now been in 
business here nearly twenty-five years. In 1887 
Mr. John B. Young went to Wichita, Kan., and 
established a branch house, and in both cities 
they have been very successful. In interior 
decoration Mr. E. D. Young is an artist of the 
highest ability. Possessing unusual talent in 
color and design he has been instrumental in 
materially elevating the standard of decorative 
work in Quincy. Many of. the most artistic 
homes in the city bear evidence of his genius. 
Mr. Young married March 4, 1891, Miss Delia 
Buckley, daughter of the late E. H. Buckley. 



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JULIUS KESPOHL. 

An active experience of forty years m the 
wholesale and retail dry goods business of 
Quincy has made Mr. .lullus Kespohl one of the 
most widely and familiarly known merchants of 
the west. He has been a leader in the jobbing 
as well as in the retail trade, conducting for 
some years one cf the most important wholesale 
dry goods houses in the Central Mississippi 
Valley. Mr. Kespohl was born at Borgholz- 
hausen, Prussia, the center of the great linen 
district, May 8, 1844, and came to this country 
with his parents in his boyhood, locating in 
Quincy in 18.57. After completing a comprehen- 
sive education he accepted a position as clerk in 
a retail dry goods store on the north side of 
Washington Park. In 1864 he en,gaged in busi- 
ness for himself, on Maine street, where the 
Tenk Hardware Company is now located, build- 
ing up a very large trade. Ten years later he 
sold out his business and devoted nearly a year 
to travel in Europe. On returning to Quincy he 
again engaged in the dry goods trade and in 
1875 built the building on Third and Hampshire 
streets, now occupied by the Schott Saddlery 
Company, where he established one of the most 
extensive wholesale dry goods houses in the 
Mississippi Valley. For five years he carried on 
an immense business and in 1880 closed it out to 
engage in the wholesale and retail trade at Lin- 



coln, Neb. In a short time Mr. Kespohl again 
returned to Quincy to fit up in the Newcomb 
block, on Fourth and Maine streets, the finest 
retail dry goods house in the city. His next 
location was at Sixth and Hampshire streets, 
but last spring he returned to the Newcomb 
block, and the Kespohl-Mohrenstecher Dry 
Goods Company was organized, to combine the 
wholesale and retail trade. During his long 
residence in Quincy Mr. Kespohl has been active 
in many public enterprises and is recognized as 
one of the most enterprising and progressive 
men of the city. 

WILLIAM S. FLACK. 

Mr. William S. Flack was born in Lincoln 
County, Kentucky, his grandfather having 
located there before it was admitted to state- 
hood. The young man was brought up on the 
home farm in the days when schools were not 
very numerous, but he made the most of his 
limited educational advantages. In 1851 he 
came to this city and learned the carpenter's 
trade, which he followed for several years. In 
1861 he commenced shipping and handling live 
stock, carrying on this business extensively. 
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live stock agent for the Wabash Railway, which 
he held for twelve years, few men being taore 
widely or favorably known to the stock raisers 
of the west and southwest. In 1881 the lumber 
firm of Flack & Bristol succeeded to the retail 
business of the Quincy Lumber Company. From 
1886 to 1890 Mr. Flack was interested in the saw 
mill of the Peters Lumber Company at Brewton, 
Ala., and was the local manager. On his return 
to Quincy he was interested in the grain and 
produce business with George H. Walker for 
three years and then returned to the lumber 
business, in which he is still engaged. Mr. 
Flack is one of the three constituent members of 
the Vermont Street Baptist Church now living. 
He has always taken an active interest in Sun- 
day school work, being superintendent of 
Spruce Street Baptist Sunday school and having 
been superintendent of the Vermont Street 
Baptist Sunday school several years. There are 
no better men. 



O. B. GORDON. 

Mr. O. B. Gordon is, like his business associ- 
ate, Mr. Upham, a descendant of pioneers of 
New England. He was born in Fremont, N. H., 
July 7, 1845, both his father and mother having 




been old residents of New England. He came 
to Quincy with his parents in 1860, being then a 
boy of fifteen, and by his own abilities and 
unremitting attention to duty has risen to a 
place of eminence in the commercial world. He 
was educated in the public schools of Quincy 
and Quincy college, and commenced his com- 
mercial life with employment in his father's 
store. In August, 1867, he accepted a position 
in the shoe store of C. Brown, Jr., and four and 
a half years later acquired an interest in the 
business. That continued six years and a half, 
v/hen the firm of Upham, Gordon & Co. suc- 
ceeded Mr. Brown, who wished to retire from 
active life. The business continued to enlarge 
under the energetic and enterprising adminis- 
tration of the new firm until the quarters on 
Hampshire street became inadequate and they 
removed to their present large building in 
Wholesale Row on Third street. Their trade 
extends all over the west, their traveling men 
traversing almost every state between the Mis- 
.sissippi River and the Rocky Mountains. 

Mr. Gordon is a quiet and unassuming gentle- 
man, devoting himself to bis business, his fam- 
ily and his home, but his influence is far 
reaching and the soundness of his judgment in 
all affairs is universally recognized. His home 
is at Sixteenth and Jersey streets, and there his 
friends find a most delightful host and hostess. 
Mrs. Gordon is a charming lady, and is active 
in many charitable and philanthropic enter- 
prises of a practical nature, her mother. Mrs. 
Adams, being one of the original promoters of 
the Young Women's Christian Home 

JOHN L. BERT. 

Very few of the present residents of Quincy 
date back so far as Mr. John L. Bert, who has 
lived here continuously more than sixty years. 
He was born in St. Louis, Mo., April 7, 1835, and 
came here with his parents in July of the same 
year. His father, the late Jean Phillippe Bert, 
was for many years the leading merchant tailor 
of the city. He first located here in February, 
1835, and built a home on the east side of 
Fourth street, between Maine and Jersey, which 
was ready for occupancy when the family 
arrived. He continued in the merchant tailor- 
ing business up to the time of his death, in 1860. 
Mr. John L. Bert was first employed as a clerk 
in the dry goods store of John Murphy, on the 
north side of the square, in 1853. Two years 
later he secured a position in the dry goods and 



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carpet store of Henry Root, remaining with him 
until 1865, when he associated himself with Mr. 
Van B. Shinn and Mr. Fred T. Hill and bought 
out the business, the firm being Shinn, Bert & 
Hill. On the death of Mr. Shinn, the year fol- 
lowing, the firm became Bert & Hill and was so 
continued until January 1, 1871, when Mr. Bert 
became sole proprietor. In 1879 Mr. Bert built 
his present handsome stone-front carpet house, 
one of the finest business blocks in Quincy. For 
more than thirty years he has been engaged in 
business on the west side of Washington Park 
and all of his long and active business experi- 
ence has been on the square. In the growth and 
development of the city he has borne his full 
share of the burdens and has assisted materially 
in making Quincy a beautiful city. Mr. Bert 
was married in 1860 to Miss Mary E. Fox and 
they have one son, Mr. Harry L. Bert, who is 
associated with his father in business. 

J. H. TENK. 

The hardware house of which Mr. J. H. Tenk 
is one of the founders is widely known through- 
out the west and has become one of the most 
extensive concerns in this line of business in 
Illinois. The business partakes of the character 
of the men who have made it what it is — solid, 
substantial, progressive. The growth has been 



steady from the first, until the present company 
is in position to compete with the leading 
houses of the larger cities. Mr. Tenk was born 
In Westphalia, Germany, in 1837, and came to 
this country with his parents in 1844. After six 
months' residence in St. Louis he located in 
Quincy, where he enjoyed the advantages of an 
excellent education. His first position was that 
of clerk in the dry goods and grocery store of B. 
[jubbe, on Fifth and Maine streets. He was 
then employed by Ricker & Arntzen and was 
afterwards connected with Sawyer & Adams for 
ten years. In 1865 the hardware firm of H. & J. 
H. Tenk was organized, their store being where 
Hill's carpet house is now located. Ten years 
later they bought their present property. Suc- 
cessful from the start, the growth of their 
business has made it necessary to very largely 
increase their facilities from time to time, their 
main building being rehult and remodeled and 
an immense warehouse being added in the rear. 
When the Tenk Hardware Company was incor- 
porated in 1891, Mr. Tenk became treasurer, and 
he is still active in the management of the im- 
mense business. In 1866 Mr. Tenk was married 
and his family now consists of wife and four 
children. Mr. Tenk was treasurer of the St. 
Aloysius Orphan Society for ten years and is 
one of the directors of the Ricker National 
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JAMES E. MacMURRAY. 

Mr. James E. MacMurray, president and gen- 
eral manager of the Quincy Hardware Manu- 
facturing Company, was born on a farm in Knox 
county, Missouri, August 7, 1862. His grand- 
father moved from Kentuclsy to Knox county, in 
1829 and his father was born there in 1837. On 
his mother's side he is a grandson of General 
Martin E. Green, who was prominent in the 
civil war, and a nephew of James Green, United 
States senator from Missouri during the rebel- 
lion. He lived on the home farm until he was 
seventeen, but was always anxious to secure an 
education and taught school until he saved 
money enough to attend the graded school at 
Canton, Mo. He then taught graded school 
until he was able to enter Chaddock College, 
where he graduated from the scientific and law 
departments in 1884, working at odd times to 
maintain his expenses. Mr. MacMurray was 
admitted to the bar in June, 1884, practicing law 
with the late Aaron MacMurray up to the time 
of his death, when the firm of MacMurray & 
Swope was organized. Desiring to engage in 
commercial business he bought a controlling 
interest in the Quincy Hardware Manufacturing 
Company in 1890, then an unimportant enter- 
prise, doing a limited business. To this business 
he devoted himself with tireless energy. His 
inventive genius was of the highest advantage 



to him and the development of this enterprise 
has been little short of phenomenal. In less 
than ten years it has grown to a very large fac- 
tory and its products are shipped abroad as well 
as being sold throughout this country. Mr 
MacMurray was a member of the city council In 
1895-6, serving as chairman of the ordinance 
committee. He was married in 1887 to Miss 
Katie L. Merrill, of Perry, 111., a classmate of 
Mr. W. J. Bryan. They have two daughters 
and one son and their beautiful and spacious 
home is one of the most hospitable in Quincy. 

E. H. OSBORN. 

Mr. E. H. Osborn was born in Brooklyn. N. Y., 
July 17, 1841. He comes of loyal New England 
stock, his great grandfather serving in the revo- 
lutionary war. At the breaking out of the 
rebellion he enlisted in the Eighty-seventh New 
York Volunteer Infantry, which was afterwards 
consolidated with the Fortieth New York, Mr. 
Osborn serving as sergeant of Company H. His 
i-egiment was one of the most noted military 
organizations of the Empire State, participating 
in all of the desperate battles of the Army of 
the Potomac and losing during the war over 
1,200 men. He came to Quincy February 22, 
1865, to accept the position of cashier for the 




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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Com- 
pany, which he held for five years, and shortly 
after engaged in his present real estate and 
loan business. Six years ago he organized the 
Adams County Abstract Company, in which he 
is the principal stockholder, the set of abstract 
books being the best and most complete in the 
United States. His long experience in the real 
estate business and his complete and compre- 
hensive knowledge of everything affecting titles 
and pertaining to property have enabled him to 
perfect a set of books that are absolutely reli- 
able and considered models. Mr. Osborn has 
been prominently identified with the real estate 
and loan business of Quincy for twenty-four 
years and has negotiated many important prop- 
erty transactions. He is also a large owner of 
desirable property. For many years he has 
taken an active interest in the welfare of the 
veterans, being past commander of John Wood 
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, he has 
served repeatedly on the staff of the commander 
in chief and is the treasurer of the Illinois Sol- 
diers' and Sailors' Home. He served in the 
city council in 1888 and 1889 and was the prime 
mover in brick paving, as well as the crusade 
which took the cows off the public streets. In 
Masonic circles he is also prominent, being past 
master of Quincy lodge, and a member of the 
chapter, council, consistory and a Knight 
Templar. In all that pertains to the welfare of 
Quincy Mr. Osborn is a representative citizen. 



Miller building, on Sixth and Hampshire streets. 
In 1885 he leased the two corner stores and the 
basement of the opera house block. Three years 
later he bought the entire property, occupying 
the remaining stores in the block. For six years 
he conducted the opera house, in addition to his 
regular business, and tor three years was his 
own opera house manager, making all of the 
bookings and attending to every detail of the 
business. He brought to Quincy the best attrac- 
tions on the road and proved a most successful 




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ANDREW DOERR. 

The business possibilities of this country are 
fairly demonstrated by the experience of Mr. 
Andrew Doerr, proprietor of the largest mer- 
chandising establishment in Quincy and the 
largest department store in Western Illinois. 
Mr. Doerr was born in Germany January 10, 
1843, and received a fair common school educa- 
tion. When a boy he engaged in peddling and 
in running a stand at the Jahrmarts, going from 
city to city and traveling on foot. He was then 
a soldier in the regular German army, but the 
life was too slow for his active temperament, 
and in 1866 he came to America, locating in 
this city. The first year he worked at cigar 
making and then went into the dry goods store 
of Ruff & Roe as a clerk, remaining four years. 
In 1872 he bought a little stock of merchandise 
and started a store of his own on Maine street, 
near Sixth. His business prospered and he soon 
moved to a larger store and still later to the 



amusement manager. When the Empire The- 
ater was completed Mr. Doerr abandoned the 
amusement business, rebuilt his big building, 
converting it into a six-story and basement 
department store. He manages the entire busi- 
ness, his capacity for details being apparently 
limitless. It is an ordinary transaction for him 
to buy out a big retail establishment and to 
absorb the stock in his great store. In his man- 
ner, Mr. Doerr is genial and always good- 
natured. The cares of business rest lightly on 
him and he is universally popular in the com- 
munity. In business he is prompt and exact, 
making it a rule to pay cash for everything and 
to sell for cash only. His strong individuality 
is impressed on everything he does. He has 
carved out his own fortune and few men have 
met with a greater degree of success. 



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WILLIAM T. DUKER . 

In speaking of the most successful merchants 
of Quincy the name of Mr. William T. Duker is 
always mentioned. Though one of the younger 
of the business men his success has been unin- 
terrupted and he ranks as one of the leading dry 
goods merchants of the state. He is a son of 
Mr. Theodore Duker and was born in this city 
December 14. 1861. His schooling was supple- 
mented by a course at St. Francis College and 
by a thorough commercial education. Soon 
after attaining his majority he formed a copart- 
nership with Mr. H. B. Menke in 1883, and the 
firm of Menke & Duker conducted the dry goods 
business at 711 Maine street. Five years later 
they removed to the spacious new stone-front 
building, 704 and 706 Maine street, and in 1893 
Mr. Duker became the sole owner of the busi- 
ness. He has steadily extended his trade, 
increasing it flve-fold in the first five years, 
until his dry goods house is as familiarly known 
in all the adjoining counties as it is in Quincy. 
Possessing all of the qualities of a successful 
merchant and a successful business man he has 
gone steadily forward, identifying himself with 
every movement for the advancement of Quincy 
and making a prominent place for himself in the 
commercial world. Mr. Duker was married 
February 15, 1SS7, to Miss Elizabeth Bowles, 
daughter of Mr. John Bowles, and they have 
one daughter, Edna, and one son, born on Mr. 



Duker's last birthday, and properly named Wil- 
liam T., Jr. Their home on East Vermont street, 
remodeled last year, is one of the attractive 
residences of the city. 

NIKLAUS KOHL. 
From the shipping room to the presidency of 
one of the leading wholesale grocery companies 
in this section in thirty years — sucn is the rec- 
ord of Mr. Niklaus Kohl, president and leading 
stockholder in the N. Kohl Grocer Company. 
He was born on a farm in South Germany in 
1836, where he had the advantages of an excel- 
lent common school education. In 1857 he came 
to this city with very little money, but with lots 
of pluck and a determination to succeed. It 
was the year of the great panic, business of 
every kind was demoralized, but the young man 
In a strange land did such work as he could 
secure until in 1861 he obtained steady employ- 
ment in the grocery house of Mr. James T. 
Baker. Here he continued until Mr. Baker sold 
out seven years later, and soon after he secured 
a modest place in the wholesale house of Austin 
& Co. With this house he remained when the 
firm was changed to Austin & Manson. He was 
one of the hardest workers about the place and 
was best satisfied when the orders were heaviest 
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interest in the business, the firm name being 
changed to Austin, Manson & Co., and later 
when Mr. Manson concluded to sell his interest 
the firm became Austin & Kohl. In July, 1896. 
Mr. Austin retired and the N. Kohl Grocer Com- 
pany was organized, with Mr. N. Kohl, presi- 
dent, his sons, Adam and John, vice president 
and cashier and Mr. .lohn Soebbing secretary. 
The large building which the company now 
occupies, on Fourth street, between Hampshire 
and Vermont streets, was purchased soon after, 
and thoroughly remodeled. To-day it is one of 
the best arranged wholesale grocery houses in 
the country and is packed full of goods, every 
dollar's worth bought for spot cash. Mr. Kohl 
has the satisfaction of managing and directing 
this immense business with his two sons asso- 
ciated with him. His success has been very 
marked, but it has not been a matter of acci- 
dent, close application to business and fair deal- 
ing with his patrons having built up the heavy 
trade which his company enjoys. 

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GEORGE ERTEL. 

By reason of his notable inventions and im- 
provements in baling machinery, incubators and 
brooders, Mr. George Ertel is widely known 
throughout the TTnited States and in all coun- 
tries where baling presses and incubators are 
used. He was one of the first of the American 
manufacturers to place a perfect press on the 
market and from a very modest beginning has 
built up a large and important industry. Mr. 
Ertel was born in Neuburg-on-the-Rhein, Ger- 
many. April 10. 1830. When he was thirteen 
years of age he commenced learning the trade 
of furniture making and then worked for sev- 
eral years in different cities at his trade. By 
the advice of a younger brother then located in 
Pennsylvania, in 1854 he came to America with 
his widowed mother, an older brother and a 
younger sister, the journey from Havre, Prance, 
in a sailing vessel requiring four weeks. On 
June 18, 1834, he secured employment at furni- 
ture making at Elmira, N. Y., but the year fol- 
lowing located at Williamsport, Pa. Early In 
May, 1S.56, he came to Quincy, working at his 
trade three years and then moving to Libei'ty, 
where he engaged in the furniture business. In 
1867 he invented and patented his first baling 
press, which he manufactured in connection 
with his furniture business. In many impor- 
tant features his press was an improvement on 
anything previously introduced and it attracted 
more than ordinary attention. At that time a 
hay press was practically unknown — there being 



but one or two imperfect machines on the mar- 
ket. As there was no railroad at Liberty he 
returned to Quincy in 1868 and commenced the 
manufacture of baling machinery exclusively in 
a small shop where his present extensive works 
are located. The business grew very rapidly, 
new styles of baling presses were introduced 
from time to time until Mr. Ertel conducted one 
of the largest and most important plants in this 
line of business in the entire country. The de- 
mand covered every state and extended to 
Canada. Mexico and all other countries where 
baling machinery is used. At the present time 
the business in this line is still being increased 




and extended. Early in 1893 Mr. Ertel invented 
and patented a complete line of incubators and 
brooders and this branch of the business has 
become a very important feature. In December 
of that year his entire business was incor- 
porated under the name of George Ertel Co., 
and in this corporation he holds the office of 
president. In 1873 he was elected a member of 
the city council, serving two years and in 1875-6 
was a member of the board of supervisors. 
Since that time he has repeatedly .declined nom- 
inations for public office and has devoted his 
attention strictly to his extensive manufactur- 
ing business. December 8, 1855, Mr. Ertel was 
married to Miss Eva Elizabeth Gardner, at Wil- 
liamsport, Pa., and they have one son, Charles 
M., born at Liberty, September 18, 1864. His 
two brothers and sister are engaged in farming 
in Crawford County, Wisconsin. 



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CHARLES A. BLANK. 

Mr. Charles A. Blank, the secretary and treas- 
urer of the Warfteld Grocer Company, was born 
in Quincy. .lime 26, 1852, and this city has been 
his home all his lite. In 1865. when only thir- 
teen years of age, he commenced active life in 
the business with which he has been identified 
ever since. His first position was in the whole- 
sale g'ocery house of G. & P. Meyer, and he 
remained with the same house when the firm 
changed to G. T. Meyer, then to Budde & Meyer, 
then the consolidated house of Warfield, Budde 
& Meyer, then Warfield & Meyer, and then the 
Warfield Grocer Company. His father died 
when he was only fourteen months old, and he 
early assisted in the support of his widowed 
mother. That early self-reliance, and his 
energy, unremitting attention to duty and rare 
commercial ability, made him valuable to his 
employers, and he was retained through the 
successive changes of firm name. He was pro- 
moted from one important position to another, 
until he is now the secretary and treasurer and 
one of the active managers of the great house 
with which he commenced service as a boy of 
thirteen thirty-five years ago. He was married 
September 26, 1893, to Miss Mary E. Mooney, of 
Charles City, Iowa. 



HENRY B. MENKE. 

Among the progressive, successful merchants 
of Quincy none occupy a more prominent place 
than Mr. H. B. Menke. the president and founder 
of the Menke Dry Goods Company. He has been 
actively engaged in the business here for more 
than twenty-five years and has built up an 
establishment which would do credit to any of 
the laiger cities. Mr. Menke was born in Ger- 
many in 1834, his early life being spent in farm- 
ing and in making brick. In 1860 he concluded 
to try his fortunes in the new world and came 
direct to Quincy. For three years he worked as 
a farm laborer, having very little means, but 
having a desire to engage in mercantile trade 
accepted a position as clerk in the store of A. J. 
Lubbe. He continued as a clerk for Mr. Lubbe 
and for others until 1873. when he started a 
retail dry goods store of his own at 711 Maine 
street. The success of this business was 
remarkable. Later Mr. W. T. Duker became 
a partner and the firm of Menke & Duker was 
continued until 1893. the spacious new building 
on the south side of Maine street being built for 
the firm by Mr. Menke in 1888. In 1893 Mr. 
Menke retired from active business owing to 
impaired health and for three years devoted his 
time largely to improving his elegant suburban 
home on Locust Boulevard. In 1896 he pur- 




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chased the store of the Fox Dry Goods Company 
and the Menke Dry Goods Company was organ- 
ized, occupying their new and spacious stone- 
front building the following spring. During the 
summer of 1S9S they purchased the wholesale 
stock of Isaac Lesem & Co., adding a jobbing 
department to their business and giving them 
one of the most important wholesale and retail 
dry goods houses in this section. Mr. Menke 
was married in 1S64 to Louisa Brockschmidt, of 
this city, and they have two sons and four 
daughters. 



WILLIAM STEINWEDELL 

Per fifty years Captain William Steinwedell 
has occupied a commanding position in Quincy 
commercial and financial circles. He is identi- 
fied with a number of large and important inter- 
ests, his remarkable capacity for dealing with 
varied entei'prises being demonstrated by his 
uniform and unbroken success. For many years 
he has directed the affairs of several extensive 
interests, any one of which would have 
demanded the entire time of most business men. 
He is a commanding figure in the community, 
bluff and outspoken, yet hale and hearty, char- 
itable and generous, a highly cultured gentle- 
man and one of Quincy's most honored citizens. 
Captain Steinwedell was born in Hanover, Ger- 
many, in 1S2T, his father being a colonel in the 
German army. He received a thorough and 
comprehensive scientific education and his study 
and researches in science have been continued 
to the present time. Of several important de- 
partments of science he is a master. Too much 
of a patriot to submit to the exactions imposed 
by monarchy during the great revolution of 
1848, he came to America, locating in Quincy. 
Two years later the hardware and iron firm of 
Bertschinger & Steinwedell was organized and 
at once commanded a large patronage. They 
were the first business house in Quincy to make 
direct importations. In those days nearly all 
hardware was made abroad and Captain Stein- 
wedell frequently visited the leading manufac- 
turing cities of Europe to make purchases. This 
firm continued in business more than twenty 
years, until October, 1873, when the senior mem- 
ber decided to return to his native land. At the 
breaking out of the rebellion Captain Stein- 
wedell organized a local military company, 
which did valuable service in this locality, with- 
out compensation and without expense to the 
government. He secured the money In the 



banks at LaGrange and Canton and delivered it 
to the subtreasury at St. Louis, by order of 
Major-General Fremont; furnished the escort 
for 20,000 stands of arms for Iowa troops from 
Quincy to Keokuk; relieved the Sixteenth Illi- 
nois Regiment when it was besieged by Confed- 
erates at Monroe City, Mo., and was in constant 
service for nearly four years. He was presi- 
dent of the board of trustees of the Soldiers' 
Home from 1894 until a press of private business 
compelled him to resign in the fall of 1897. For 
over twenty years he was president of the gas 




company and is now local director. He is also 
president of the Arrowrock Mining and Milling 
Company, treasurer of Dick Brothers Milling 
Company, secretary of Dick & Brothers' Quincy 
Brewing Company. He was for a long term of 
years a stockholder in the First National Bank 
and is now a stockholder in the State Savings, 
Loan and Trust Company. One of the organ- 
izers of the Quincy Turnverein, he was one of 
the builders of the Turner Hall and is now an 
honorary member, having a certificate for 
twenty-five years' membership. To each of the 
varied interests with which Captain Steinwedell 
is identified he gives careful personal attention 
and still finds time for important public affairs, 
in which he has always taken prominent part. 



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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND^^HOMES. 




JOHN McADAMS. 

The Hon. John McAdams, state senator from 
this district, is a native of Adams county, born 
on a farm in Ursa Township in January, 1S43. 
His parents came here from Kentucky at an 
early day and were among the pioneer settlers 
of the county. After completing his studies at 
the home school he attended the schools of this 
city for two years and then engaged in teaching 
for a time. Then he returned to farming and 
developed one of the finest farms in the entire 
county. Enterprising and progressive, he was 
elected to the offices of justice of the peace and 
road commissioner, in the latter office first dem- 
onstrating his enthusiasm for good roads, which 
has since brought about practical results. He 
was elected a member of the general assembly 
of 1880-81, serving during the regular and 
special sessions. When his term in the legisla- 
ture expired he located in Quincy and has since 
been engaged in the grain and commission busi- 
ness. He was elected alderman of the Second 
Ward in 1897, serving one term. The same 
year he was elected to the state senate to 
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator 
Albert W. Wells, and in 1S9S was re-elected for 
a full term. In 1863 Senator McAdams was 
married to Miss Anna Smith, a most estimable 
woman, whose death during the past winter is 



most sincerely lamented. Senator McAdams is 
popular in his party and has never been 
defeated for office; in his case the office has 
sought the man. 

S. P. BARTLETT. 

For more than twenty years Mr. S. P. Bartlett 
has held the position of secretary of the Illinois 
State Fish Commission and in his chosen field 
of work has gained a national reputation. In 
all matters pertaining to the propagation, pre- 
servation and distribution of fish he is consid- 
ered authority. He was first appointed a mem- 
ber of the Illinois commission in 1877 and some 
years ago was also appointed field superinten- 
dent of the United States Fish Commission, 
being at present in charge of Quincy station. 
The work in this state is of first importance 
from the fact that the Illinois River is one of 
the finest and most productive streams in the 
entire country, and each year hundreds of car 
loads of young fish are reclaimed and saved 
imder his direction from the shallow lakes and 
sloughs along the Illinois and distributed 
throughout the state and throughout the coun- 
try. Mr. Bartlett has conducted his work for 
the state and national commissions with a zeal 
and energy possessed by very few men. He has 




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a perfect knowledge of the nature and habits of 
all the native fish and his success in this work 
has gained for him unusual distinction. Fish is 
a much more important factor in the food sup- 
ply of the country than is generally understood 
and his efforts in increasing and developing this 
staple have resulted in lasting good to the peo- 
ple. 

Mr. Bartlett was born in Quincy in 1S42 and 
this city has always been his home. His father, 
the late S. M. Bartlett, was one of the founders 
of the Quincy Whig, which was established by 
Bartlett & Sullivan in 1838, more than sixty 
years ago. For several years following the close 
of the war Mr. S. P. Bartlett conducted the lead- 
ing grocery house of the city and was also an 
extensive shipper of fruits. In 1877 he retired 
from commercial business to devote his atten- 
tion to his present work, in which he has few 
peers in the entire country. Mr. Bartlett has a 
very wide acquaintance with public men. Genial 
and affable, a royal companion and a steadfast 
friend, he is a welcome guest everywhere. 

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ENOCH R. CHATTEN. 

To the late B. I. Chatten, the honored father 
of Mr. Enoch R. Chatten, Quincy is indebted 
for its splendid system of grades and its uni- 
formly level streets. For many years Mr. 
Chatten, Sr., was one of the leading ministers 
in the Illinois conference of the Methodist 
Episcopal church. His early education had been 
along scientific lines, however, and in the early 
40's he resigned his pastorate at Alton, at that 
time the highest appointment in the conference 
to accept a position in the government engin- 
eering office in St. Louis. Two or three years 
later he located at Fall Creek and engaged 
in engineering. In 1847 he was elected county 
surveyor, which office he held continuously 
until his death, March 22, 1871. For a long term 
of years he also held the position of city engin- 
eer. He established the system of grades and 
laid out most of the streets of the city, this 
work being an enduring monument to his skill 
and ability. When the original topography is 
crrsidered his work seems the more remarkable. 
The heavy draws leading up from the river, the 
hieh hills and deep ravines, were changed to 
broad and level streets, with just enough slope 
to rromote a perfect system of natural drain- 
age. Mr. Chatten was known to nearly every 
resident of the county and was universally hon- 
ored and respected. He was the soul of honor 



in all things and his good name will endure as 
long as Quincy stands. The picturesque stone 
bridges across Ashland creek and Mill creek, 
built by him fifty years ago, are fair samples of 
his artistic and honest work. 

Mr. Enoch R. Chatten was born at Fall Creek, 
April 4, 1846. When a young man he enlisted in 
the late Governor Woods regiment, the 137th 
Illinois, and at the close of the war was asso- 
ciated with his father in engineering work. He 
was elected city engineer in 1869 and with the 




exception of one year held the office continu- 
ously up to the present year. A worthy succes- 
sor of an honored father, he not only inherits 
his father's remarkable ability, but also his 
uncompromising integrity. While the father 
established the grades and laid out the streets, 
the son has preserved the grades and made the 
streets permanent. On him has devolved the 
entire engineering work for the many miles of 
street paving and sewer building. This system 
of public improvements has gone steadily for- 
ward under Mr. Chatten's direction until 
Quincy has been made one of the most b?autiful 
and attractive cities in the entire country. For 
more than fifty years the father and son ha 
labored honestly, faithfully and zealously in 
making Quincy what it is and like the father the 
son has done his work well. 



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REPRESENT ATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




LEATON IRWIN. 

Lik-j many of Quincy's most successful busi- 
ness men. Mr. Leaton Irwin is not only self- 
made, but inaugurated and built up the exten- 
sive commercial enterprise of which he is the 
head. He was born at Plymouth. 111., August 
7, 1863. In his boyhood his advantages for 
schooling were limited, but he was determined 
to have an education, and in the summer time 
sold books that he might attend school in the 
winter. When eighteen years of age he had 
gained an appointment to the West Point Mili- 
tary Academy and came to Quincy to start for 
West Point. Here he concluded that he pre- 
ferred a literary rather than a military educa- 
tion, and entered Chaddock College, graduating 
with honors. For two years after graduating 
he held the chair of mathematics at Chaddock. 
Then for four years he was correspondent for 
Pope, Lockwocd & Co. In 1887 he engaged in 
the wholesale paper trade and in twelve years 
has built up the business of the Irwin Paper 
Comrany, of which he is president, one of the 
largest concerns in this line of trade in the west, 
a credit to Quincy and to the business capacity 
cf its founder. Mr. Irwin was also largely 
interested for a time in the Quincy Hardware 
Manufacturing Company, holding a majority of 
the stock. He was the prime mover in the 
organization of the Quincy Freight Bureau and 



is secretary of that important association of the 
leading shippers of the city. A man of broad 
charity, Mr. Irwin is a generous contributor to 
worthy causes and is a good citizen as well as a 
prosperous and successful business man. 

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WALTER SPRY 

Mr. Walter Spry was born in Chicago in 186S. 
and received his education in thac city at the 
Chicago Manual Training School and the Chi- 
cago Musical College. After graduating he went 
abroad to continue his musical studies and had 
the personal instruction of such great masters 
as Leschetizky, of Vienna; Rudorff and Urban, 
of Berlin. Returning to America Mr. Spry 
devoted himself to teaching and appeared sev- 
eral times in concerts and piano recitals in his 
native city and always with success. Wishing, 
however, to study the higner forms of musical 
composition he decided to go to Paris, where he 
remained two years, making altogether six 
years abroad. Professor Rousseau, who v/as 
Mr. Spry's teacher and who is one of the leading 
professors at the Paris Conservatory, said: "Mr. 
Spry is the most talented young American musi- 
cian I have had the honor and pleasure to 
know." In 1897 Mr. Spry accepted the director- 
ship of the Quincy Conservatory of Music and 
through his artistic and business-like manage- 
ment has established the institution as one of 
the leading schools of music in the west. 




REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




WILLIAM E KENDALL. 

Mr. William E. Kendall is a native of Quincy, 
born here December 1, 1860. His father, Mr. F. 
C. Kendall, is one of the oldest residents of this 
county, coming here from Warren county, Ohio, 
in 1838. After receiving a good common school 
and a thorough business education, Mr. William 
E. Kendall learned telegraphy and in 1880 
accepted a position as night clerk in the freight 
house of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway. 
He was afterwards appointed car accountant 
and then bill clerk, and when the H. & St. J. Ry. 
was absorbed by the Chicago, Burlington & 
Quincy, he was made car accountant. In 1889 
he was promoted to the position of baggage- 
master, which position he still holds. Prompt, 
courteous and absolutely reliable, he is univer- 
sally popular with the traveling public and 
commands the confidence and respect of the 
officers of the company. In 1893 he was elected 
alderman of the First Ward on the republican 
ticket by a large and flattering majority. In 
1895 he was rs-elected and last spring was again 
elected for the third time. His record in the 
city council has been above reproach. On all 
public questions he has been fearless and out- 
spoken, tireless in his efforts for promoting the 
welfare of the city and his long service has been 
cf the highest advantage to the progress of 
Quincy, 



HENRY H. MOLLER. 

For nearly twenty-five years Mr. Henry H. 
Moller has been prominently identified with the 
lumber trade of Quincy and he is as well and 
favorably known in the leading lumber markets 
of the north as he is here at home. The firm of 
Moller & VandenBoom, of which he is the senior 
member, is engaged largely in the wholesale 
trade in addition to their extensive retail busi- 
ness, shipping to nearly all towns and cities 
tributary to Quincy. Mr. Moller was born in St. 
Louis May 29, 1848, and came to this city with 
his parents in 1856. As a boy he had a strong 
desire to engage in commercial business and 
when quite young secured a position in the 
Ricker Bank, remaining there four years. He 
was afterwards employed at the Menke & 
Grimm planing mill and in the business office of 
Wendelin Weber and Dick's brewery. July 15, 
1875, the lumber firm of Moller & VandenBoom 
was organized and has been one cf the most 
successful in this branch of business in the his- 
tory of the city, conducting four important 
lumber yards at the present time. Mr. Moller 
was a member of the b^ard of supervisors for 
five years, serving on the finance committee, 
and chairman of the poor farm committee, and 
his influence had much to do in shaping legisla- 
tion in that body. Careful and conservative in 
business affairs, yet enterprising and progres- 
sive, he is one of Quincy's substantial citizens. 
Mr. Moller was married January 10, 1871, to 
Miss Louisa VandenBoom. and they have four 
sors and one daughter. 



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NICHLAS HEINTZ. 

Mr. Nichlas Heintz was born in Germany in 
1839. His father was a farmer and wlien ten 
years of age the boy contributed his full share 
to the farm worli. In 1854 he came with his 
parents to this country, locating in Milwaulvee. 
It was the year of the fatal cholera epidemic 
and within a week after their arrival in Mil- 
waukee his father and mother were stricken and 
both died. The son, thrown on his own 
resources, commenced to learn the shoemaker's 
trade, working one year in Milwaukee and four 
years in St. Paul, but he was young and received 
very low wages. In the fall of 1859 he came to 
Quincy and secured a place at his trade with Mr. 
Kettler, remaining with him two years. Then 
he went into the shoe store of C. Brown, Jr., as 
a clerk, working for Mr, Brown six years, when 
he took an interest in the business, being with 
this house seventeen years. In 1878 he opened 
his present large shoe house on Maine street and 
has since been at the head of the trade in 
Quincy. He has fine property interests here, 
including the building which he occupies, and 
the Heintz office building, opposite the court 
house, Mr. Heintz is an active and most effec- 
tive worker for all public enterprises. He was 
one of the organizers of the board of commerce 
and is a member of the directory. He was 
chairman of the market committee and may 
fairly be called the father of the present public 
market, and he has been an effective worker for 



good roads leading to West Quincy and in this 
county. He is the present president of the retail 
boot and shoe association of Quincy. In fact he 
is one of Quincy's most active and enterprising 
citizens. 

JOSEPH B. MENKE. 
Though one of the younger business men of 
the city, Mr. Joseph B. Menke is one of the most 
successful. He is the son of Mr. H. B. Menke, 
with whom he is associated in the extensive 
business of the Menke Dry Goods Company. 
Born in Quincy, July 19, 1867, he enjoyed the 
best educational advantages, attending St. 
Francis College and Blackburn University after 
leaving the common schools. His first work 
was in his father's dry goods store and he was 
afterwards with Menke & Duker. Desiring a 
wider and more extended experience, in 1892 he 
accepted a position in the extensive establish- 
ment of B. Nugent & Brother, St. Louis, and 
also filled an important position with Mack 
Schulz, in the same city. In 1S96, his father 
having purchased the business of the Fox Dry 
Goods Company, Mr. Menke returned to Quincy 
and the Menke Dry Goods Company was organ- 
ized. In the spring of the following year the 
company removed to the new and spacious 
building which they now occupy and last year 
added a wholesale department to their business, 
having purchased the stock of Isaac Lesem & 
Co. Mr. Menke is a born merchant and a pro- 
gressive and successful business man. 





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LOUIS F. SCHAEFER. 

Probably few ot tbe younger business men of 
Quincy are more generally known throughout 
the city than Mr. Louis F. Schaefer, by reason 
of his long connection with the Morning Whig. 
He was born in this city, September 29, 1871, 
and is a son of Mr. George Schaefer. His father 
is one of the older residents of Quincy, coming 
here in the 40's, and for years conducted an 
extensive cooperage business. A man of sterl- 
ing qualities and genuine worth, he is now free 
from the cares of active business, an honored 
and respected citizen. When fifteen years of 
age Mr. Louis Shaefer went into the Whig office 
as office boy. He had been a close student and 
enjoyed the advantages of a common school 
education beyond his years. Applying himself 
closely to business, he was soon bookkeeper and 
before he was twenty, filled the position of 
assistant business manager and cashier. When 
the present Whig company was organized last 
July, he was made business manager, a position 
which he resigned in October to accept his pres- 
ent position of bookkeeper and cashier at the 
Newcomb Hotel. Mr. Schaefer is an expert 
bookkeeper and accountant, a trained and ready 
correspondent and a man of sterling, rugged 
honesty. In the business community he is 
widely known and universally respected. 



JOHN L. SOEBBING. 
While one ot the younger of the representa- 
tive business men ot Quincy. Alderman John L. 
Soebbing occupies a prominent place in the 
wholesale trade ot the city. He comes ot two of 
the old and well-known families of Quincy, his 
father, Mr. Anton Soebbing, having located here 
in 1853, and his mother in 1847. He was born 
in this city February 2, 1861, receiving a good 
common school education, but started out for 
himself early In life, when a mere boy working 
for Dr. Rittler and then in the drug store of 
Mr. P. Carus, on Maine street, where he 
remained until the business was closed out by 
the death of the druggist. He then secured a 
position with the grocery house of C. R. Oliver, 
Eleventh and Broadway, and afterwards worked 
for Mr. John J. Metzger, the latter being con- 
vinced that young Soebbing had the making of 
a strong business man and inducing him to take 
a thorough commercial education. On leaving 
the business college he returned to Oliver's 
store, working also for the successor firm. 
Strickling & Co., and later for Jacob Scholz. In 
the spring of 1884 he accepted a position with 
Mr. John Altmix and in 1887 engaged in the 
grocery business at Twelfth and Vine streets, 
buying out John Winkeljohn. Three years later 
he built a spacious store building of his own on 
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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



associated with him in the business. In 1896 
Mr. Soebhing retired from the retail trade and 
became interested in the wholesale house of 
the N. Kohl Grocer Company and was elected 
secretary, a position which he still holds. A 
thoroughly successful and progressive business 
man he has contributed his full share to the 
material increase in the business of this exten- 
sive wholesale grocery concern since the incor- 
poration. Mr. Soebbing served on the board of 
supervisors in 1889-90 and in the City Council 
1891-3, being a member of the auditing, water 
and light committees and making a most envi- 
able record as a public official. In 1896 he was 
re-elected to the council, but resigned in the fall 
owing to his change of residence. Last spring 
he was again elected alderman and is now a 
member of the finance, water and light commit- 
tees. He is identified with important business 
interests, being vice president and a director in 
the Excelsior Stove Manufacturing Company 
and secretary and treasurer of the Quincy Sand 
Company. He is also treasurer of St. Andrew's 
branch W. C. U. Mr. Soebbing was married 
October 30, 1883, to Miss Clara Altmix, and they 
have four sons and four daughters. 

LLEWEYLYN B. McKENNA. 

Prof. McKenna, teacher and author, occupies 
a position peculiarly his own in the higher edu- 
cational circles of Quincy. It is a position made 
honorable by twenty-five years of faithful, suc- 
cessful teaching, prominent by reason of the 
thousands of prosperous and successful business 
men and women whom he has graduated. Few 
educators in the country have so wide an 
acquaintance. Ills graduates being located in 
every state and territory and in the countries 
beyond the seas. The influence of his teaching 
in starting young men and young women in suc- 
cessful business careers cannot be measured. 
The text books which he has written are every- 
where accepted as standard and are in use in 
nearly every leading commercial school 
throughout the country. Prof. McKenna was 
born in Prince Edward county, Ontario, April 
18, 1844. He attended the grammar school at 
Stirling. Ontario, and afterwards the Illinois 
Normal University, at Normal, and then gradu- 
ated from the German and English College, in 
this city, in June, 1871, receiving the degree of 
Master of Arts from Johnson College, an out- 
growth of the German and English College, In 
June, 1877. The degree of Doctor of Laws was 
conferred on him by Chaddock College, in June, 
1891. His first teaching in Quincy was In the 



Gem City Business College, then conducted by 
Howe & Musselman, May, 1874, and he contin- 
ued with that college until August, 1897, an 
uninterrupted professorship of more than 
twenty years. His position was the head of the 
department of mathematics and law. The text 
books which he has written include Practical 
Business Arithmetic, first published in 1889, 
since reprinted in several editions and in gen- 
eral use in business colleges and high schools; 
Principles of Commercial Law, published in 
1893, and used extensively in commercial col- 




leges and normal schools; Manual for Business 
Letter Writing, a standard authority found 
everywhere on business men's desks and used in 
normal schools; Ideal Arithmetic, now in use 
in the Union Business College and sold exten- 
sively from Maine to California. His latest text 
book, Correct English and Its Essentials, is now 
in manuscript and will be published during the 
present year. 

Prof. McKenna is now president of the Union 
Business College and teacher of commercial 
arithmetic, commercial law and letter writing. 
In his long and notable experience he has grad- 
uated upwards of 12,000 students. Thorough- 
ness is his ruling characteristic in teaching and 
a diploma with his name attached is everywhere 
accepted as a proof of proficiency. Now in the 
prime of life and at the head of a leading busi- 
ness college, he has many years of successful 
work before him. 
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Mr. 



H. P. WALTON. 

H. P. Walton, the president of the 



Humane Society and a member of the board of 
local improvements and superintendent of 
streets, has done much for the alleviation of the 
needless sufferings of the brute creation and for 
the beautifying of the city. He was born in 
Massachusetts April 25, 1832, and is a son of 
Jonathan and Eliza (Locke) Walton. The fam- 
ily is one of the oldest in America, the founder 
of it in this country, the Rev. William Walton, 
having come from Exeter, England, in 1632. 
The Lockes came four years earlier, in 1628, and 
the family homestead in Arlington is the oldest 
house in that city. The Waltons were among 
the patriots who fought for American indepen- 
dence, and there were ten members of the fam- 
ily in the revolutionary army. Edmund Mun- 
roe, the great grandfather of Mr. Walton, en- 
listed in the king's army when a young man, 
and was present at the capture of Quebec. 
Twelve years later he was in the ranks of the 
patriots, and fought at Bunker Hill. He was 
with General Gates when Burgoyne's army was 
captured at Saratoga, and was with Washington 
at Valley Forge. A letter written by him to his 
wife during that awful winter is one of the heir- 
looms of the family. He was killed the next 
June by a cannon ball at the battle of Mon- 
mouth, he then holding the rank of captain. 



Mr. Walton was born at Arlington, and re- 
mained there during his youth and early man- 
hood. In 1869 he came west, locating in Kent- 
land, Ind., where he engaged in the grocery and 
hotel business, in which he was remarkably suc- 
cessful. He came to Quincy in 1873, but re- 
tained his business interests in Indiana until 
1886, when he finally disposed of them. 

He was married November 13, 1873, to Sarah 
E. Jackson, a daughter of Samuel and Eliza J. 
Jackson. She was born in Boston August 4, 
1834, and came to Ouiucy with her parents when 
nine months old, her father having been one of 
the pioneers of the city. Her father was born 
in 1803 and died in 1890. Her mother was born 
in 1809 and died in 1874. He was one of the 
substantial citizens of Quincy, and several hand- 
some business blocks are the monuments of his 
enterprise and public spirit. 

Mr. Walton is a sturdy republican, his first 
vote for president having been cast for Free- 
mont. He tried to enlist in the union army at 
the first call for troops, but was rejected. A 
brother was accepted, and served tor three years 
with distinction. 

He is an untiring promoter of humane work, 
and has been president of the Quincy Humane 
Society for several years. He is also president 
of the Woodland Cemetery Association. He is 
a member of the board of local improvements 
and superintendent of streets, and has been 
instrumental in the inauguration of much im- 
portant public work. He is a member of the 
Knights Templar and the Knights of Pythias. 
4s a man and a citizen, his life is one which 
can be held up for general emulation. 

JAMES DICKSON. 

Alderman James Dickson, general foreman 
for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway 
and leased lines, was born at Patricroft, Lan- 
cashire, England, January 16, 1847. He enjoyed 
a comprehensive mechanical education, learn- 
ing the trade of a machinist in Liverpool and 
Birkenhead. Advanced step by step through all 
departments in his line of work, under the very 
thorough English system, he received a certifi- 
cate which opened the doors of any mechanical 
works in the country where the services of an 
expert were required, his education including the 
theory of mechanics and construction as well as 
a practical knowledge of the work. It was while 
employed in Laird's mammoth ship building 
works at Birkenhead, on the marine engines of 
the "290," afterwards the famous privateer 
Alabama, that he lost the index finger of his 



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right hand. The operations of this privateer 
gave rise to the famous Alabama claim, England 
paying this government $15,000,000 In settle- 
ment. In 1867 Mr. Dickson came to this coun- 
try, accepting a position in the Grant Locomo- 
tive Works at Patterson, N. J. Soon after he 
secured a position in the C, B. & Q. machine 
shops at Galesburg, where he remained tor two 
years, and was afterwards employed by the 
Union Pacific, the Rock Island, the Illinois Cen- 
tral and the Indianapolis, Bloomington & West- 
ern. He was employed in the erection of the 
Joliet Steel Works from the time work was 
commenced until the first rail v.-as rolled In 
1873. In 1874 he returned to the C, B. & Q. at 
Galesburg, where he remained until he was ap- 
pointed superintendent of water service for the 
company, with headquarters at Galesburg, a 
position which he held for four years. At 
Galesburg he took a prominent part in public 
affairs and was employed as expert in the con- 
struction of the Galesburg water system. In 
1888 he came to Quincy to accept his present 
position of general foreman for the C, B. & Q. 
Mr. Dickson was appointed a member of the 
board of education last year and has taken an 
active interest in school affairs, being a strong 
friend of popular education. Last spring he was 
elected alderman from the First Ward on the 
republican ticket by a handsome majority, being 
popular with the people generally. 



WILLIAM H. KONANTZ. 
Mr. William H. Konantz is a son of one of the 
pioneer residents of Quincy, his father, the late 
Paul Konantz, coming here from New Orleans 
in 18.36. He was born in this city, April 9, 1846, 
and is the oldest of twelve children. Supple- 
menting his early education In the common 
schools by attending evening school, he learned 
the harness makers' trade with Bernard & Lock- 
wood and then spent two years learning the 
finest grades of work in Chicago. In March. 
1876, with a few hundred dollars capital, he 
opened a shop of his own on Maine street, west 
of Fourth. His business prospered from the 
first. He was an expert workman, capable of 
supplying the most elegant coach and track har- 
ness, and within five years not only enjoyed a 
handsome local patronage, but was shipping to 
other cities as far west as the Pacific Coast. 
Once fairly established he extended his opera- 
tions until he conducted one of the most impor- 
tant wholesale and retail harness trades in this 
section of the country. Mr. Konantz has held 
an important place in Masonic circles, filling the 
positions of master of Lambert Masonic lodge 
and commander of BI Aksa Commandery, 
Knights Templar. He fully merits the enviable 
position he occupies among Quincy's representa- 
tive business men. 




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FRED P. TAYLOR. 

Mr. Fred P. Taylor, the editor and proprietor 
of The Journal of Industry, started life as a 
poor boy, and by his energy, unremitting indus- 
try and ability has made a name for himself. 
His father, William Thomas Taylor, first came 
to Quincy in 1836. He was a painter and was 
in business for a time with Mr. Letton, and put 
the first coat of paint on the Wells building. 
He was a soldier in the Mexican war, and won 
distinction on the other side of the Rio Grande. 
He went south several years before the rebellion 
and after the civil war broke out enlisted in the 
confederate army. He was killed in battle on 
the Cumberland River, and his eldest son was 
killed at the battle of Shiloh. 

Fred P. Taylor was born in Louisville. Ky., 
March 15, 18.58, and when five years of age came 
to Quincy with his widowed mother and family. 
As a boy he worked in a grocery store, and 
when fourteen years old became an office boy on 
the Quincy Herald, and there learned the trade 
of printer. He subsequently worked on that 
paper and also on the Whig as a journeyman 
printer. Politically he is a democrat, and early 
took an interest in politics. He was elected a 
member of the board of supervisors, and re- 
elected. While serving his second term on the 
county board in 1885 he was elected to the state 
legislature from this district, and participated 



in the memorable Logan-Morrison senatorial 
contest. January 1, 1887, he established The 
Journal of Industry, and has made it one of the 
most influential journals in this section. He 
stands high in the councils of his party, and his 
influence is wide spread. He was elected a mem- 
ber of the board of supervisors again in the 
spring of 1899, although he made no campaign 
and did not seek the place. He was married 
March 18, 1879, to Miss Jennie Bloom, and they 
have four children, three sons and one daughter. 

HARRIS SWIMMER. 

For more than thirty years ex-Alderman Har- 
ris Swimmer has been a prominent factor in 
local political affairs and for many years he has 
been widely known in state and national poli- 
tics. In county, district and state conventions 
he has wielded commanding influence and has 
taken prominent part in many hard fought 
political battles. As one of the leaders of the 
sound money democratic movement in Illinois 
in 1896 he gained added political distinction. 
Mr. Swimmer was born at Colmar, Germany, 
September 22, 1844, and the year following came 
to this country with his parents. In May, 1856, 
he came to Quincy and in 1865 established his 
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he has handled feathers extensively and Is now 
the largest dealer in feathers In this country. 
Single orders of from one to five car loads are 
frequently received by him and many of the 
leading eastern manufacturers depend on his 
house for their supplies. His hide and wool 
business has also assumed extensive propor- 
tions. In 1878 Mr. Swimmer was elected alder- 
man from the Second Ward and served in the 
City Council for sixteen years, the longest con- 
tinuous term of service in the history of that 
body. His comprehensive knowledge of city 
affairs and his constant attention to the best 
interests of the city were of the greatest benefit 
to the people. He has held the position of 
United States deputy marshal for nine years. 
having first been appointed under President 
Harrison's administration. Mr. Swimmer was 
a member of the finance committee of the Grand 
Lodge, A. O. U. W., for twelve years and has 
served on other important committees of that 
organization. He is also ex-president of the 
I. O. B. B., district number six, comprising seven 
states. February 23, 1873, Mr. Swimmer was 
married to Miss Lena Solomon, of St. Paul, and 
they have two sons. Mrs. Swimmer shares the 
honors with her husband In well-known frater- 
nal organizations. She is grand chief of honor 
of the Degree of Honor, A. O. U. W. for Illinois 
and is also a member of the finance committee 
of the Superior Grand Lodge of the United 
States. 

WILLIAM EBER. 

The subject of this sketch is one of the oldest 
business men in Quincy, in point of continuous 
operations, and is one of the best known seed 
men in the state. Mr. William Eber was born 
June 20, 1829, in Unterrodach, Bavaria, and 
acquired his commercial education in his native 
country. His father was a member of an exten- 
sive lumber firm, which floated lumber and log 
rafts down the rivers Main and Rhine, supply- 
ing Frankfort, Cologne and part of Holland 
with lumber. After finishing his commercial 
education in the cities of Bamberg and Nurem- 
berg, Mr. Eber, then a youth of twenty, decided 
to come to the United States, and landed in New 
York in 1849. From there he went to Baltimore, 
where he found employment in a store, and 
remained for over a year. He then went to 
Warren, Pa., where he engaged in business and 
remained for over five years, leaving it in 1855 
for a visit to Germany. Warren is now almost 
the center of the coal oil belt, but at that time 
no one dreamed of finding oil in quantities. _ 




On bis return to this country, Mr. Eber was 
undecided as to whether to locate in Milwaukee 
or Quincy, but finally decided on this city, and 
arrived here in the fall of 1856. He was em- 
ployed by Mr. Leopold Arntzen and remained 
with him until 1863, when he formed a copart- 
nership with Charles A. Koencke. They estab- 
lished a general store, and commenced dealing 
in seeds. That partnership was dissolved in 
1868, and Mr. Eber continued the business on his 
own account, giving most of his attention to 
seeds, a business which he has built up to large 
proportions. He was materially aided in estab- 
lishing his seed business by Mr. William 
Stewart and by Quincy's extensive market gard- 
ners. Later he formed a partnership with Mr. 
E. C. Walters, under the firm name of Eber & 
Walters, which continued until 1884, when Mr. 
Walters went to Minneapolis. Since that time 
his son, William H. Eber, has become interested 
In the business, the firm name being William 
Eber & Son, and it is known all through the 
western country. Mr. Eber was doing business 
on Hampshire street for more than thirty years 
without interruption until his removal to the 
present quarters at Sixth and Vermont some 
seven years ago. 

Mr. Eber is one of the active promoters of 
the beet sugar industry in Illinois, auJ is one 
of the commissioners of the Illinois Beet Sugar 
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FRANK W. OSBORN. 

Mr. Frank W. Osborn, secretary and treasurer 
of the Quincy Coal Company, is one of the most 
prominent of the younger business men of the 
city. He is also secretary and treasurer of the 
Farmington Coal Company, the business of the 
companies with which he is identified aggre- 
gating a very heavy volume and covering a 
wide extent of territory. This business em- 
braces coal mining on an extensive scale, as 
well as dealing in coal in heavy quantities. The 
Quincy Coal Company was the first to supply 
the Quincy market and its operations have been 
extended to many other cities. Mr. Osborn was 
born in Quincy, August 24, 1867. He is a son of 
Mr. Charles C. Osborn and a grandson of the 
late H. S. Osborn, one of the early settlers of 
Quincy and for many years one of the foremost 
business men. After completing his common 
school education, he graduated from the law 
department of Chaddock College, being awarded 
the gold medal for the best thesis. He com- 
menced work for the Quincy Coal Company in 
1884, being advanced rapidly until he was 
elected to the responsible positions which he 
now holds. A clean cut business man, of quick 
perception and capable of handling any amount 
of detail, he is well calculated to bring about 
success. Of elegant address, he is genial and 
aifable and is popular in social as well as in 
business circles. Mr. Osborn has always been 



active in Sunday school work and is at present 
assistant superintendent of the Vermont Street 
M. E. Sunday school, one of the 'largest in the 
city. 

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HARVEY CHATTEN. 

In architecture in this section the name of Mr. 
Harvey Chatten takes prominent rank. Many 
of the more notable buildings built in Quincy in 
recent years are substantial monuments to his 
artistic skill. Mr. Chatten was born in this city 
in 1S53 and is a son of the late B. I. Chatten, for 
so many years the honored civil engineer. In- 
heriting his father's artistic ability as well as 
his sterling qualities, he early decided on his life 
work, securing his training in the office of the 
late Robert Bunce and in the offices of promi- 
nent Boston architects. He succeeded to much 
of the business of Mr. Bunce and was not long 
in establishing a substantial patronage. Among 
the more important buildings designed by Mr. 
Chatten are the Quincy High School. Stern 
building, the elegant residences of Mr. R. P 
Newcomb. Mr. T. C. Poling, .Judge Carter, Prof! 
D. L. Musselman, Mr. J. N, Wellman, Mr. George 
H. Stahl, Mr. J. B. Ellis and the handsome City 
Hall building. He also made the plans for 
remodeling the Newcomb block, Rogers block. 
Powers block and many other business houses.' 
Mr. Chatten is also widely known in musical 
circles, his magnificent bass voice ranking as 
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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




WICK ANDERSON. 

Promptness in taking advantage of opportuni- 
ties very often leads to immediate and signal 
success, as is fairly demonstrated Ijy the experi- 
ence of Mr. Wick Anderson, of the Union Busi- 
ness College. He was born on a farm near 
Newark, Knox county, Missouri, February 3, 
1869. His early education was obtained at an 
old log school house, called by the scholars 
"Brush College." He then returned to farm 
work, but being ambitious to secure a thorough 
education he went to college in 1S8-5 and gradu- 
ated with honors. His natural ability for com- 
mercial college work having manifested itself he 
took complete courses in three leading business 
colleges, and for two years did active work in a 
liusiness office as booklceeper and stenographer. 
He then taught in a business college in this city 
for four years and in March, 1896, seeing an 
opening for a progressive, thoroughly equipped 
commercial school in Quincy. he founded the 
Union Business College and School of Short- 
hand, Typewriting and Telegraphy, in the New- 
comb block. The beginning was small but the 
standard was high, and that the opportunity 
was well taken is demonstrated by the fact that 
this college, in three years, has grown to occupy 
three floors of this spacious building and num- 
Ijers several hundred students. It is thoroughly 
equipped in every department, the faculty 
embraces prominent and efficient instructors 
and it is now generally recognized as one of the 
leading commercial colleges of the country. Mr. 
Anderson is the secretary and business manager 



and has the satisfaction of having achieved sig- 
nal success in an important department of edu- 
cational work. 

EDWARD W. TROWBRIDGE. 

Mr. Edward W. Trowbridge was born in this 
city April 15. 1860. After completing his com- 
mon school education he attended commercial 
college and early developed a natural ability for 
active business affairs. His first position was 
that of shipping clerk in Buehrer's wholesale 
confectionery and he then took charge of the 
business office of his father. Mr. Watson Trow- 
bridge. In 1880 he accepted the position of book- 
keeper for Joseph & Nelke, which he held for 
two years and then represented that firm on 
the road for two years. In 1884 he established 
his present coal business, which he has devel- 
oped until he has beccme one of the leading coal 
dealers of the city. Prompt and carefully atten- 
tive to the interests of his patrons, a tireless 
worker and one of the most energetic of the 
younger business men of Quincy, he is well cal- 
culated to succeed in any undertaking. At his 
home on Locust Boulevard, he also conducts an 
extensive dairy business. Mr. Trowbridge is one 
of the directors of the Park and Boulevard Asso- 
ciation and in this important work as well as ii 
other public enterprises he has been an active 
factor. He was married in November, 1887, to 
Miss Lucy Wells Benneson and they have two 
sons and one daughter. 




REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




JOHN BATSCHY. 

Mr. John Batschy, the well-known architect, 
was born In Filisur, Switzerland, March 8, 1855. 
After acquiring a thorough common school edu- 
cation he developed a natural talent for archi- 
tecture and spent several years in the noted 
schools of design at Zurich and Winterthur. In 
18S4 he came to this country and after remain- 
ing two years in St. Louis located in Quincy. 
Building operations were active, his ability was 
promptly recognized and a prosperous business 
was quickly established. Mr. Batschy is the 
architect of many of the more prominent build- 
ings in Quincy. including the Soldiers' Home 
buildings, Woodland Orphans' Home, the Mus- 
selman building, the largest business block in 
the city, the Schott office building, the George 
Ertel block, the large buildings for the pump 
department of the Gardner Governor Company, 
the Quincy show case works, J. J. Flynn & Co.'s 
bottling works, the Washington and Irving pub- 
lic school buildings, engine houses numbers four 
and seven and a number of fine residences. The 
Wells office building was remodeled under his 
direction and he made the plans for the exten- 
sive addition. He also designed the elegant 
High School building and the Odd Fellows' 
Temple at Fort Madison, Iowa, the large new 
hotel at Macomb and other notable public build- 
ings and business structures in neighboring cit- 
ies. His genius as an architect is unquestioned. 



CHARLES OEHLMAN. 
Mr. Charles Oehlman was born in Hanover, 
Germany, .July 21, 1849, coming to this country 
with his parents in 1852. His father, Dr. Henry 
Oehlman, located in Quincy and practiced medi- 
cine here up to the time of his death In 1891. 
On July 1, 1864, Charles did his first work In the 
drug business, securing a position with Sellner 
& Webber. He remained with this store through 
several changes of ownership for eleven years, 
becoming an experienced chemist and pharma- 
cist. In 1875 he formed a partnership with Br. 
Durant, who had bought out the drug business 
of A. Basse, Sr., of which Mr. Oehlman was then 
manager, and the firm of Durant & Oehlman 
continued for thirteen years. Dental supplies 
had been added to the drug trade and in 1888 
Mr. Oehlman established the Quincy Dental 
Depot, at 514 Maine street. In 1891 he removed 
to his present quarters on the east side of Wash- 
ington Park, where he has built up a prosperous 
and steadily increasing business. His dental 
depot is one of the most prominent in this sec- 
tion of country and the dentists throughout the 
west have become his patrons. Mr. Oehlman is 
a responsible, progressive business man and 
deserves the success which he has gained. He 
was married at Maryville, Mo., December 19, 
1878, to Miss Anna Struck, and they have one 
daughter. 




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JOSEPH H. VANDENBOOM. 

Mr. Joseph H. VandenBoom was born in this 
city, August 6, 1854. His father, the late C. A, 
VandenBoom, was one of the old and promi- 
nent residents of Quincy, coming here in 1849. 
He was a leading pork packer for many years 
and was also the founder of the VandenBoom 
chair factory. He died in 1885, leaving an hon- 
ored name. Mr. .Joseph VandenBoom, after 
receiving a comprehensive commercial educa- 
tion, was employed in the Ricker bank for three 
years and was afterwards bookkeeper for the 
pork packing firm ot VandenBoom & Blomer. In 
1875 he formed a copartnership with Mr. Moller 
and the present lumber business of Moller & 
VandenBoom was establisTied where their main 
office is still located, on Vermont street, be- 
tween Sixth and Seventh streets. The business 
grew very rapidly and as additional room haa 
been required three other yards have been 
established, one on Third and Vermont streets, 
another on Third and Broadway and a whole- 
sale yard on Quincy Bay. This firm is now 
among the most extensive lumber dealers on the 
Mississippi River. Mr. VandenBoom served 
four years in the City Council and was a promi- 
nent and influential member of that body. In 
all business affairs he is prompt and reliable 
and is one of Quincy's representative men. He 
was married in 1876 to Miss Amelia Kaeltz, who 
died four years later. In 1885 he married her 



sister. Miss Julia Kaeltz. He has one son and 
one daughter living, his son now being a stu- 
dent at a military school at Buffalo, N. Y. 

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J. HENRY B ASTER T. 

The career of Mr. J. Henry Bastert is a fair 
illustration of what push and energy will 
accomplish, as in less than five years he has 
established and built up the leading general 
insurance business of the city. His success is 
clearly of his own making. Born on a farm in 
Hancock county, April 5, 1SG6, he started out for 
himself early in life, filling the position ot 
engineer at the old Aetna Iron works when thir- 
teen years of age. In 1883 he accepted a posi- 
tion with the German Insurance Company as 
clerk. Soon manifesting special qualifications 
for this line of work he was promoted to the 
position of bookkeeper and afterwards elected 
secretary, an office which he held up to the time 
the company voluntarily went out ot business 
in 1894. Mr. Bastert closed up the affairs of the 
company and wound up its extensive business 
to the satisfaction of all of the stockholders. 
Then he engaged in the general insurance busi- 
ness, his experience in passing on and placing 
important risks and in making adjustments 
being of the highest advantage to him and to his 
patrons. Mr. Bastert was an alternate delegate 
to the republican national convention at St. 
Louis in 1896 and in political and general busi- 
ness affairs is active and progressive. 




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JOHN A. MYERS. 

Mr. .John W. Myers, president of the Reliable 
Incubator and Brooder Company, was born on a 
farm near Novelty, Mo., January 17, 1864. Com- 
ing to Quincy with his parents at an early age 
he received a fair common school education. 
His first position was that of bell boy at the old 
Quincy House, but he commenced work for 
Clark & Morgan when quite young and 
remained with them for over fifteen years. He 
was a hard worker and a first-class salesman. 
In 1879 he became interested in the poultry 
business, in a small way at first, but gradually 
increasing his poultry yards until they became 
of considerable importance. His first venture 
in the incubator business was with the Reliable 
incubator, in which his brother, Clarence, was 
interested, in 1893, when he resigned his place 
at Clark & Morgan's. In his new business he 
threw his unlimited energy and every resource 
he could command. The machine was success- 
ful and Mr. Myers had every confidence that it 
would meet with extensive sale. It was adver 
tised judiciously and exhibited at the World's 
Fair and all of the great poultry shows, where 
it was awarded highest honors. As a result of 
the World's Pair exhibit it is now sold all over 
the world. The business has been developed 
largely and very rapidly and the officers of the 
company have reason to feel proud of their suc- 



cess. Mr. Myers was married in 1885 to Agnes 
Reynolds, daughter of Henry Reynolds and 
granddaughter of Frederick O'Connor, one of 
the early residents of Quincy. He has four 
daughters and one son. An enthusiast in what- 
ever he undertakes. Mr. Myers is known as one 
of Quiney's most active business men, full of 
enterprise and absolutely reliable. 

CLARENCE A. MYERS, 

Mr. Clarence A. Myers, secretary and treas- 
urer of the Reliable Incubator Company, was 
born in Dunkirk, N. Y., September 26, 1853. Two 
years later he came to Missouri with his parents 
and in 1865 located in this city. His father, 
Mr. A. O. Myers, who is now nearly seventy 
years of age, was for a long time a leading 
builder here. He built or superintended the 
construction of the Adams county court house 
Hotel Lamar, Lesem block, Kespohl block. 
Union block, St. Mary's Hospital, McBain 
block. Kingsbaker block, Meyer block and other 
buildings in Quincy. and also the depot build- 
ings on seventy miles of the Quincy. Missouri & 
Pacific Railway and the bridge work on thirty- 
five miles of the Jacksonville & Southeastern 
Railv/ay; also the Bloomfleld, Iowa, court house. 
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forty-room house at Hannibal and other impor- 
tant buildings in other cities. When fifteen 
years of age Clarence began the carpenter trade. 
His honored mother died in 1S63 and his father 
was in the army; he was therefore obliged to 
contribute to the support of the family. For 
six years he followed carpentering, working on 
the court house, Tremont Hotel, the McBain and 
King buildings and on other large structures. 
In 1877 he accepted a position with Clark & 
Morgan, remaining with them seventeen years. 
In 1892 he engaged in the incubator business in 
a small way. The business prospered, but on 
February 20, 1894, their factory was entirely 
destroyed by fire. The loss was a severe one, 
but the business was at once resumed and with 
the wide reputation already established for the 
machines, prosperity quickly returned. Last 
year the Reliable Incubator and Brooder Com- 
pany occupied their present building, on Second 
and Vermont streets, built expressly for them, 
and they now have one of the largest incubator 
factories in the world. 

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BENJAMIN G. VASEN. 

For nearly twenty-five years Mr. Benjamin G, 
Vasen has been identified with the building 
association interests of Quincy, and in this im- 
portant branch of business few men in the west 
are more widely or favorably known. He was 
one of the organizers of the United States 
League of Local Building and Loan Associations 
in 1893 and held the office of secretary for two 
years, declining re-election for the third term. 
Since June. 1890, he has been secretary of the 
Building Association League of Illinois and has 
been instrumental in shaping the present laws 
governing these institutions. Mr. Vasen was 
born in Philadelphia. .July 2, 18.57, coming to 
Quincy with his parents ten years later. He 
received his early education in the public 
schools and also took a thorough course in 
bookkeeping and mathematics at commercial 
college. When thirteen years old he accepted a 
position with Hirsch & Vasen and was after- 
wards bookkeeper and cashier at St. Joseph 
Mo., for the branch house of J, Jonas & Co. In 
January, 1875, he returned to Quincy to accept 
a position with Morton & Nichols and took 
charge of the building association and loan de- 
partments of their business, to which he suc- 
ceeded. He started his present insurance, real 
estate and loan business in 1881 and in 1893 
removed to his present spacious and handsome 
quarters at Fifth and Maine streets, the rooms 




occupied for many years by the banking house 
of L. & C. H. Bull. Mr. Vasen was the organ- 
izer and the first secretary of the People's Sav- 
ings, Loan and Building Association in Novem- 
ber, 1883, and in December, 1885, was elected 
secretary of the Quincy Building and Home- 
stead Association, both of which offices he still 
holds. He had been acting as assistant secre- 
tary of the later association since January. 1875. 
A close student in building and loan association 
matters he is considered authority in this im- 
portant branch of finance. Mr. Vasen has han- 
dled for the two associations of which he is sec- 
retary nearly $5,000,000 without a single loss 
and at a considerable profit to the stockholders 
He is an expert accountant, an experienced 
insurance man and a responsible citizen. 

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MARSHALL TR A VILLA. 

Mr. Marshall Travilla was born in Quincy, 
February 3. 1856. His father was one of the 
early residents of the city, coming here in 1848 
and up to the time of his death in 1872 was en- 
gaged in contracting, many of the prominent 
residences of Quincy having been built under 
his direction. He was a careful, painstaking 
workman and bore an enviable reputation in his 
business. The son learned his father's trade. 



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working as a carpenter until 1881, when he 
secured a position as traveling salesman for the 
Channon-Emeiy Stove Company. On the road 
he was very successful, commanding an excel- 
lent trade. In 1889 he engaged in business for 
himself, opening his present stove store and 
large tin shop on the west side of Washington 
Park. Mr. Travilla was one of the first to put 
the new low-priced sheet iron stove on the mar- 
ket and is now making and selling several 
thousand each season, having built up a large 
and constantly increasing trade. Personally he 
is like his father, quiet, reserved and closely 
attentive to business, absolutely reliable in all 
things. He was married May 29, 1878. to Miss 
Lillie Shontz. of this city, and they have one 
son and one daughter. 




FRANK TUBBESING. 

The name of Mr. Frank Tubbesing, the archi- 
tect, is a familiar one in Quincy, and profession- 
ally it ranks among the best. He was born in 
this city April 6, 1854. and Quincy has always 
been his home. His parents were Frank H. and 
Barbara Habel Tubbesing, who came here in 
1851. Mr. Tubbesing's father died in 1865, and 
at the age of 17 he was apprenticed to W. A. 
Williams, at that time a prominent contractor 
and builder. Mr. Tubbesing learned the carpen- 
ter's trade, and then entered the office of 



Robert Bunce, at that time one of the most 
prominent architects of the west, as a draughts- 
man. He studied diligently, and in 1878 opened 
an office of his own. His practical knowledge 
of building, and his talent for architecture, 
broadened and deepened by conscientious study, 
soon brought him to the front, and he now 
ranks as one of the leading architects of this 
section. Many public and private buildings in 
Quincy and vicinity are the monuments of his 
skill and genius. He made the plans for the 
Ricker National Bank building, the Tenk block, 
the Madison school building, the great building 
on the county farm, and many other public 
structures and private residences, which are an 
adornment to the neighborhood and models of 
convenience of arrangement. He was married 
April 6, 1875, to Miss Hannah Pellman, whose 
father was killed in the civil war. They have 
one son, Frank Tubbesing, Jr. 

FREDERICK THUMAN. 

Alderman Thuman was born in Hanover, Ger- 
many, January 20, 18.39, his father. Judge 
August Thuman occupying a prominent position 
in his native city. The son was educated under 
private tutors until he entered the university 
preparatory school. When fifteen years old he 
concluded to seek his own fortune in this coun- 
try and commenced life on his own responsi- 
bility as a clerk in New York City. He then 
went into the wall paper trade, but in 1858 en- 
listed in the navy under Captain James Finlay 
Schenck. One year of service proved sufficient, 
however, and he engaged in the wall paper 
business in St. Louis. When the war broke out 
he was one of the first to volunteer in the three 
months service, joining the Third Missouri In- 
fantry May 2, ISGl. On being mustered out the 
following August he immediately reinlisted in 
the First Missouri Infantry, under Colonel 
Frank Blair and was in Grant's army in its 
great campaigns in the south. After serving 
nearly three years he was mustered out at Jack- 
son, Tenn., a compound fracture of his leg dis- 
qualifying him for the army. Returning to St. 
Louis he was commissioned a notary public by 
Governor Fletcher and engaged in the collection 
of pension claims and back bounties. In 1866 
he went back to the wall paper business and ac- 
cumulated a handsome property. Ten years 
later business misfortunes having been encoun- 
tered by reason of his generosity in assisting 
pretended friends, he located in this city, com- 
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trade. He was so successful that in 1892 he 
built his present large business block, adding a 
complete stock of housekeeping goods of every 
description. In 1S98 he was elected alderman 
from the Fourth Ward. Mr. Thuman has gained 
notable distinction in fraternal organizations 
with which he is identified. He is past grand 
commander of the Select Knights of America 
and the present grand recorder of that organiza- 
tion. He is also past master workman of Hum- 
boldt lodge, A. 0. U. W.; past president of 
Peerless lodge, I. O. M. A., and past master of 
Lambert Masonic lodge. He was married in St. 
Louis in 1860 to Miss Margaret Ferguson and 
has two daughters and two sons, who are asso 
ciated with him in business. 

. BYROM WHITFIELD. 

Mr. Byrom Whitfield comes of one of the 
pioneer families of North Carolina, both his 
father and mother having been born in that 
state. His great grandfather was a gunmaker 
in London and Mr. Whitfield now has a gun 
made by him many years ago. Mr. Whitfield 
was born in Nash county, North Carolina, and 
when five years of age his parents located at 
Effingham, 111., where the boy was given a com- 
prehensive education. When he was seventeen 
he went into the drug store of Dr. J. G. McCoy 



to learn the business, remaining there six years. 
He then accepted a position with C. H. Crane, 
at Michigan City, Ind., as prescription clerk, 
which he held until failing health compelled 
him to seek outdoor employment. Returning 
to Effingham he went into the insurance and 
loan business and in March, 1S76, accepted the 
position 01 deputy county clerk of Effingham 
county, which he held nearly seven years. De- 
ciding to return to the drug business he came to 
Quincy March 1, 1883, but failing to find any 
drug store for sale that was satisfactory or a 
desirable location for a new store he accepted a 
position with D. S. Cherry, druggist, 308 Hamp- 
shire street. In July, 1883, he passed the exami- 
nation of the state board of pharmacy in Chi- 
cago and received a certificate as a registered 
pharmacist, the state pharmacy law having 
been adopted whOe he was out of business. Two 
years later work on the present government 
building was commenced and Mr. Whitfield con- 
cluded that a drug store near the new postofflce 
ought to do well. In April, 188.5, he leased his 
present store and his business has been success- 
ful from the day his doors were opened. Mr. 
Whitfield is an experienced druggist and phar- 
macist. He has devoted his attention very 
closely to business and conducts one of the most 
inviting as well as one of the most prosperous 
drug stores in Quincy. 




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H. F. LUMMIS. 

Mr. H. P. Lummis, secretary and treasurer of 
the Lummis Implement Ccmpany. is a son of 
Mr. Joseph Lummis, of Gilmer Township, one 
of the oldest and most prominent residents of 
the county. His father came to this county from 
Ohio in 1844 and held the office of county treas- 
urer in 1868-9. His mother is a daughter of Mr. 
John Lawless, who came to Adams county in 
1835. Mr. H. F. Lummis was born on the home 
farm October 25. 185fi. After completing the 
graded school he attended Chaddock College, 
commercial college and the Illinois Normal Uni- 
versity. He then taught school for seven years. 
In 1885 he decided to engage in commercial 
business in Quincy and the agricultural imple- 
ment firm of Schafer, Lummis & Co. was organ- 
ized, afterwards changed to Lummis, Rump & 
Co., Lummis, Earhart & Co., and in December, 
1895, the Lummis Implement Company was 
incorporated. The following spring the com- 
pany occupied their present quarters ou Sixth 
avenue, the largest and best arranged agricul- 
tural implement house in the city. Retaining 
a deep interest in the public schools. Mr. Lum- 
mis was appointed a member of the board of 
education in 1897. He is chairman of the com- 
mittee on buildings and grounds and a member 
of the committee on rules and the committee on 
teachers. To this work he has brought his ripe 



experience in school affairs and is one of the 
most active and valuable members of the board. 
In btisiness he has met with the success that 
comes from strict integrity and sterling quali- 
ties. 

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JOHN J. FLYNN. 

Mr. John J. Flynn. who conducts one of the 
leading bottling works for carbonated waters in 
the west, has built up his extensive and impor- 
tant enterprise from a very small beginning 
and against odds which would have discouraged 
most men. He was born at Blackstone, Wor- 
cester county, Massachusetts, April 9, 1854, and 
was early obliged to contribute to the family 
support. When ten years old he commenced 
working in a cotton mill, continuing until he 
decided to come west, in 1874, locating in this 
lity. After taking a complete commercial col- 
lege course he commenced making spruce and 
loot beer, for which he found ready sale and as 
soon as his limited capital would admit he 
ijegan bottling beer. In 1881 the present soda 
water business was established, Mr. Flynn 
devoting himself to the study of every feature of 
chemistry that enters into the production of 
carbonated waters. Absolute purity was the end 
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RKPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



were added to the business from time to time, 
the demand increasing very rapidly and the 
trade being steadily extended. The present 
model establishment was built, filters, distilled 
water and every modern improvement has been 
introduced and Mr. Flynn is now at the head of 
a most important business. He is a safe, con- 
servative business man, genial and public spir- 
ited, popular and universally respected in the 
business community. Mr. Flynn was married 
in 1877 to Miss Mary E. Larkin, of this city. 
They have two sons and one daughter, theii 
eldest son being a student at Barnes' Medical 
College, St. Louis. Their home in Park Place 
is one of the most beautiful in that desirable 
residence section of the city. 

JACOB F. DAUGHERTY. 

Mr. Jacob F. Daugherty, one of the leading 
undertakers and embalmers in this section of 
the state, has lived in Adams county since early 
boyhood. He was born in Westmoreland 
county, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburg, March 10, 
1840. His father, Michael Daugherty, was of 
Scotch descent, and his mother, Elizabeth 
(Funk) Daugherty, of German parentage. They 
came to Illinois in 18.51, Jacob being then a boy 
of eleven, and settled on a farm in Ursa town- 
ship, Adams county, where he soon became one 
of the most substantial and prosperous farmers 
of the county. He owned 400 acres of fertile 
land, all improved and cultivated, and was one 
of the most prominent citizens of the township. 
He was a man of sound business judgment, en- 
terprising and energetic, and conducted his 
farm with the greatest success. He died in 1892, 
regretted by all who knew him. Mrs. Daugh- 
erty survives, and is well preserved both in 
mind and body. 

Jacob F. Daugherty received a good common 
school education, and remained on the farm 
until he was thirty years of age, when he came 
to Quincy and embarked in the livery business. 
He was successful, but left it in 1876 to engage 
in undertaking and embalming. To this he 
brought a thorough and comprehensive knowl- 
edge of the art of embalming and a personality 
which has endeared him to the thousands of 
persons who have called upon him in the hour 
of their bereavement. In the twenty-five years 
he has been in the business he has buried over 
3,000 persons, and as an embalmer he has no 
superior in the west. 

Mr. Daugherty was married in 1862 to Miss 
Louise Turner, the daughter of Jpbo Turner, 




one of the prominent citizens of this county. 
Six children have blessed their union— Mrs. B. 
F. Porter, Mrs. Anson M. Brown, Mrs. Charles 
Brown, of Phoenix, Arizona, Grace, Leroy and 
Arthur. 

Mr. Daugherty's office and undertaking rooms 
are at 115 Sixth avenue North. He is also 
owner of a large granite and marble business. 
He and Mrs. Daugherty are members of the 
Vermont Street Baptist church, and he has been 
one of the trustees. He is also a member of 
the Knights of Pythias and the Royal Arcanum. 

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L. M. SCHMITT. 

For more than thirty-five years Mr. L. M. 
Schmitt has been identified with the drug trade 
of Quincy. He was horn in this city in 1848. 
His father, Mr. Leonard Schmitt, was one of the 
pioneer residents of Quincy, coming here in 
1838, and he was widely and favorably known 
to all of the early residents of the city. In 1862 
Mr. L. M. Schmitt went into the drug store of 
Doway & Morton and two years later secured 
a position with Rogers & Malone. For eighteen 
years he remained with this house, through 
various changes of ownership, having become 
an experienced pharmacist and chemist and also 
holding responsible positions in the business 



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office. In 1S82 he took an interest in the whole- 
sale drug house of Hurlbut, Hess & Co., Chicago. 
Five years later he returned to Quincy and en- 
gaged in the retail drug trade at Sixth and 
Hampshire streets, afterwards moving to his 
present location. Mr. Schmitt now has one of 
the leading drug stores of Quincy and enjoys a 
large patronage. He attends strictly to busi- 
ness and has established an enviable reputation 
in business circles. With his wife and three 
promising children he has a large and pleasant 
home at Thirteenth and Spring streets. 

THOMAS S. BALDWIN. 

Mr. Thomas S. Baldwin, the world-famous 
aeronaut, was born in Quincy January 30, 1S61. 
and started in life as a lamp lighter for the gas 
company and a newspaper carrier. He early 
took a liking to athletic work, and in 1875 went 
out with George W. De Haven's circus as a 
gymnast. Later he was with W. W. Cole's cir- 
cus, and then joined a partner in tight rope 
walking and trapeze performing. While per- 
forming in an Ohio town the trapeze broke and 
both were plunged to the ground. His partner 
was killed, but Mr. Baldwin escaped serious 
Injury, and in 1880 went to California. While 
there he became interested in aeronautics, and 
v.-as the first man in this country to make a 



parachute descent from a balloon. His first 
parachute descent was made near the Cliff 
House, San Francisco, and the second in Quincy 
in 18S6. It was during the celebration of that 
year and he made the memorable descent of 
more than three miles from a balloon. That 
made him famous, and while he has many imi- 
tators in the hazardous business he has no 
equals. The name Baldwin stands to-day for 
all that is most advanced, skillful and daring in 
the science of ballooning. In 1887 he went to 
England and gave exhibitions during the sea- 
son at Alexandria Palace, London, his audience 
including the Prince of Wales and other mem- 
bers of the royal family and the nobility. From 
England he went to Australia, India, Italy and 
Spain, and then returned to America. In 1890-91 
he made a tour around the world, creating a 
furore of wonder and admiration in every coun- 
try he visited and gave exhibitions. He sailed 
from San Francisco to Japan, and thence to 
China, Manila, Corea, Slam. Java, Sumatra and 
all through the Straights settlements, to India, 
back through Europe and England and home 
by way of New York. He has made a close 
study of practical aeronautics, and his advice 
and judgment is in constant demand by the 
most eminent scientists in the country. Iri 1891 
he purchased Singleton Park, changed its name 
to Baldwin Park, and has made it the great out- 
door pleasure resort of the city. He was mar- 
ried in 18S6 to Miss Carrie P. Pool, and they 
have one son. 




REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




HERMAN MOECKER. 

Few names are better known in Quincy than 
that of Herman Moecker, the popular hotel man. 
He is a young man, but commands an impor- 
tant influence in the community. He was born 
in Quincy October 16, 1866. and this city has 
always been his home. His father, Herman 
Moecker, Sr., came to Quincy in 1856, and built 
the Pacific Hotel, which he successfully con- 
ducted for many years. The son was associated 
with him before his death, and succeeded to the 
business, which he has made even more success- 
ful. The construction of the new railroad ter- 
minals necessitated a change of location, and a« 
this writing Mr. Moecker has perfected the 
plans for the erection of a new and elegant hotel 
on Second street, near the entrance to the new 
C, B. & Q. passenger station. 

Mr. Moecker is a democrat, and has justly 
won the reputation of being one of the best 
political generals in that party. He was chair- 
man cf the democratic city central committee 
in 1897, and chairman of the democratic county 
central committee in 1898, and the victories of 
his party in those years are largely attributed to 
his shrewd management of the campaigns. He 
was elected an alderman from the Second Ward 
in 1895 and 1896 and again re-elected, without 
opposition, in 1898. He has been one of the 



most influential members of the city council 
during his four years' service in that body, and 
has been instrumental in the enactment of much 
important municipal legislation. He was mar- 
ried in 1888 to Miss Mollie Ohnemus, and they 
have two bright sons, Herman, Jr., and Eugene. 



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CHARLES W. BREITWIESER. 

Mr. Charles W. Breitwieser, one of Quincy's 
representative and most popular retail grocers 
is a native of Quincy, born here March 5, 1862. 
He left school when thirteen years of age to 
learn the cigar makers' trade, but a year later 
accepted a position in a retail grocery store. He 
remained there for sixteen years, securing a 
complete and comprehensive knowledge of every 
department of the business. In 1892 he bought 
out the grocery business of Mr. William Evers, 
succeeding to an established trade which he not 
only maintained but increased substantially. 
This summer Mr. Breitwieser removed to his 
present quarters, near the corner of Fifth and 
Hampshire streets, where he has one of the 
most attractive and inviting grocery stores in 
the city. 




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J. S. SLUSHER. 

Mr. J. S. Slusher was born in Bentley, Han- 
cock county. Illinois, April 6, 1867. He is a son 
of Mr. J. A. Slusher, one of the pioneers of Han- 
cock county. While attending school he worked 
in his father's store at Bentley and early devel- 
oped a natural aptitude for merchandising. 
After completing a commercial college course 
he accepted a position in a dry goods store at 
Fort Scott, Kan., and then engaged in business 
for himself. Two years later he concluded to 
return to his native state and in December, 1891, 
started his Noah's Ark in this city, devoted to 
the sale of general merchandise. The start was 
a very modest one, the front half of the smaller 
of his first Hampshire street stores being amply 
large to accommodate his entire stock. But the 
young merchant was not afraid of hard work. 
He had a most attractive faculty of displaying 
goods and the ability to sell them. His capital 
was turned quickly and the business prospered 
steadily. Soon the entire store was occupied 
and before the close of the third year the second 
and larger store was leased. New departments 
have been added from time to time until Mr. 
Slusher conducted a large and important busi 
ness. Last spring he removed to the Rogers 
building, on Sixth and Hampshire streets, one 
of the largest business blocks in the city. He 
was married June 18, 1890, to Miss Helen Davis, 
cf Carthage, 111., and they have one son. 



JOEL BENTON. 

While ho is one of the younger of the active 
business men of Quincy, Mr. Benton comes of 
one of the oldest and most widely known fami- 
lies. His grandfather, the late Joel Benton, 
came to Adams county from Connecticut in 
1834, locating at Mendon, where he resided up to 
the time of his death, more than sixty years. 
His father, Mr. W. W. Benton, was lorn in a 
log cabin in Mendon, not over one hundred feet 
from the handsome residence which he now 
occupies. Mr. Joel Benton enjoyed the aivan 
tages of an excellent common school ard com 
mercial college education and in September. 
1889, accepted a position in the Quincy National 
Bank, his father being one of the directors. 
Later he was one of the directors and treasurer 
of the Quincy Artificial Ice Company. Four 
years ago the Benton-Dudley Agricultural Im- 
plement Company was organized, of which Mr. 
Benton is manager. The company has a large 
salesroom on Hampshire street, near Eighth, 
and a spacious warehouse on Second and Ver- 
mont streets, conducting an extensive business. 
He is also one of the directors of the Quincy 
National Bank. Mr. Benton is active and ener- 
getic, attentive to business at all times, and is a 
worthy descendant of his New England 
ancestors. 




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HERBERT L. LONSDALE. 

Mr. Herbert L. Lonsdale, of the firm of S. D. 
Rider & Co., has been a resident of Quincy only 
two years, but he has already made his influence 
felt in the business community. Active and 
aggressive, possessing unlimited capacity for 
detail, he is a fair type of the successful young 
business man of to-day. Born on a farm near 
Pillar Point, N. Y., August 2, 1871, he early 
made up his mind to engage in business and 
when still young secured a position with a 
wholesale queensware house at Watertown, N. 
Y. In 1S94 he formed a copartnership with S. 
D. Rider and opened a flve-and-ten-cent store at 
South Bend, Ind. The idea was a new one and 
the enterprise was immediately successful. A 
second store was soon after established at 
Lafayette and the firm now has stores at South 
Bend, Joliet, Decatur, Dubuque, Davenport and 
Quincy, nine in all, covering three states. Fre- 
quently the entire product of a factory is pur- 
chased and the firm has a buyer of their own in 
the European markets. Mr. Lonsdale opened 
the Quincy store in March. 1897. A very large 
business was done from the start and it has 
been increased steadily. Quick to determine 
what the people want, he is as prompt in meet- 
ing the demand. Recently the title of the firm 
has been changed to the S. D. Rider & Co. Syn- 
dicate. Mr. Lonsdale has made Quincy his per- 
manent home and he is one of the city's most 
aggressive business men. 



WILLIAM L. MOORE. 

The chief operator of the Western Union Tele- 
graph office in Quincy, Mr. William L. Moore, 
was born in Parsonsfield, Me., May 28, 1854. He 
is a son of the late Dr. John Moore, who came to 
Quincy in 1870, and who was for many years one 
of the leading physicians and surgeons of the 
city. The son left school when fifteen years of 
age to learn telegraphy, operating at Kankakee, 
111., and came here in the fall of 1S71. He soon 
obtained a position with the old North Missouri 
Railroad at Lathrup, Mo., where he remained 
for a short time and then accepted a place with 
(he Quincy, Alton & St. Louis Railway, in this 
city. Afterwards he held positions at Hannibal 
and at West Quincy and in 1876 was promoted 
to a position in the train dispatcher's office at 
the Quincy depot, which he held four years, and 
in 1880 was employed in the Wabash office, 
.luly 15, 1881. he went into the Western Union 
uptown office, where he has since remained. In 
August. 1894. he was appointed manager, the 
position which he resigned recently to resume 
his former place as chief operator. From 1894 
until 1898, he was also superintendent of tele- 
graph tor the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Ry. 
Few men in the business have had a wider or 
more comprehensive training or are more thor- 
oughly qualified for the responsible position 
which he now occupies. As manager of tfiis 
important office he gave satisfaction to the 
general public as well as to the officers of the 
company. 




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THOMAS J. CLARK. 

Mr. Thomas J. Clark, deputy internal revenue 
collector, was born in Huntsville township, 
Schuyler county, Illinois, September 16, 1853. 
His father, Harrison Clark, came of an old and 
prominent Kentucky family and located in 
Schuyler county in 1833, where, during his long 
and useful life he accumulated a large tract of 
valuable farming land. After obtaining a thor- 
ough common school education Thomas at- 
tended the Lincoln University for two years. In 
1875 he purchased a farm in Sedgwick county, 
Kansas, but two years later engaged in the 
grain business at Wichita. In 1879 he trans- 
ferred his grain business to McPherson, where 
he built an elevator and shipped the first car 
load of grain from that station. In 1881 he 
returned to Illinois and purchased the farm in 
Pea Ridge township, Brown county, where he 
has since resided. He was married in 1874 to 
Miss Virginia Anderson, of Huntsville, and they 
have five sons and two daughters. In 1890 Mr. 
Clark was special agent of the government to 
enumerate the recorded indebtedness in the 
Twelfth Congressional District and he has 
served several terms as secretary of the Brown 
County Mutual Insurance Company. He has 
always taken an active interest in political 
affairs and is widely known throughout the 
state. 



ALBERT SELLNER. 

Mr. Albert Sellner was born in Buffalo, N. Y., 
November 2, 1850, and came to this city with 
his parents six years later. His father, Mr. 
Charles Sellner, has been engaged in the leather 
business here for over forty years and is one of 
Quincy's most honored and highly respected 
citizens. After receiving a thorough common 
school education, Mr. Albert Sellner graduated 
from the chemistry department of the Royal 
Polytechnic Institute at Stuttgart, Germany. 
Returning to this city in 1870 he devoted him- 
self for some time to analytical chemistry and 
the manufacture of chemicals. In 1873 he 
accepted the position of chemist with Miller, 
Terdenge & Co., and two years later became a 
partner in the business, the firm being Miller, 
.•\rthur & Sellner, remaining in the drug busi- 
ness until 1889. Shortly after that date he 
engaged in his present business, photographic 
supplies, in which he has been eminently suc- 
cessful. In chemistry, which enters so largely 
into successful photography, Mr. Sellner is 
without a peer in this locality and his high 
artistic attainments have also been of great 
advantage to him in his present line of business. 
He inherits the sterling qualities of his father, 
as well as his quiet, genial courtesy, and is a 
model business man and citizen. 




REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




JAMES B. CORRIGAN. 

One of the successful young men of Quincy is 
James B. Corrigan, a member of the enterpris- 
ing hardware firm of Kreider & Corrigan. He 
is a native of Adams county, having been born 
in Liberty Township February 21, 1856. His 
father James Corrigan, was one of the promi- 
nent farmers of Liberty, having lived in the 
township for fifty-three years, enjoying the 
respect and confidence of the whole community. 
The subject of this sketch was educated m the 
common schools, and then at the Camp Point 
High School. He then attended St. Francis Col- 
lege where he graduated with high honors, 
receiving the degree of A. B. Deciding upon a 
legal profession, he studied law m the office of 
cfrter & Covert, and while pursuing his studies 
he accepted a position as office deputy under 
Sherm Heckle. Later he became deputy county 
treasurer under John B. Kreitz, and his expen- 
ence and efficiency in that office le^d to ^- 
election as county treasurer in 1894. He servea 
his term, and then remained in the office for a 
year under Treasurer George McAdams, his suc- 
cessor. Determining then upon a co-^^ff"^' 
life he purchased an interest m the Kreider 
hardware business, the firm "^me be ng 
changed to Kreider & Corrigan. and '^ that line 
of activity he has been very successfu . i'er 
sonally, Mr. Corrigan is one of the most pleas- 
ant of gentlemen, and his friends are legion. 
Mr Corrigan is married, his wife's maiden name 
having been Miss Agnes Bernbrock, of this city. 



ALDERMAN J. FRED TELLBUESCHER. 
Mr J. Fred Tellbuescher, senior alderman 
from the Third Ward, was born in Germany 
February 7, 1848, and came to this city with his 
parents in 1856. As a boy he was obliged to 
hustl- for himself, working as a tobacco stem- 
mer at 75 cents per week. He afterwards 
learned the trade of wood turning and m 18 z 
went to St. Louis, where he worked at his trade 
and soon secured the position of superintendent 
of a furniture shop at Jefferson City. In the 
fall of 1874 he returned to this city and shortly 
after concluded to take a trip over the country. 
Then he engaged in farming on Sni Island for 
five years, but the floods got most of his crops, 
and in 1880 he came back to the city and opened 
a small saloon in one corner of the old Geise 
paper mill. Four years later he built his pres- 
ent substantial buildings on South Front street. 
Mr. Tellbuescher has held the office of president 
of the local saloon keepers' association since it 
was formed, with the exception of three years, 
is vice president of the State Liquor Dealers 
Association and the representative of that body 
for southern Illinois. He was elected to the 
City Council in 1894 and has been three times 
re-elected, at the present time being a member 
of the finance, ordinance, permanent improve- 
ment and street committees and chairman of 
the auditing committee. He is also a member 
of the board of health and is one of the commis- 
sioners of the House of Correction. 




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THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. 



DR. JOSEPH 

One of the distinguished coterie of citizens of 
Quincy who have attained national reputation 
is Dr. Joseph Roljliins, wliose fame may be prop- 
erly said to have been atained in three branches 
— professionally, politically and as an authority 
in Free Masonry. He was born in Leominster, 
Mass., September 12, 1834, his ancestors having 
been members of the Plymouth colony. His 
grandfather was a soldier of the revolution, 



ROBBINS. 

menced the practice of his profession in Quincy 
immediately after his graduation, and has con- 
tinued it uninterruptedly ever since. 

Dr. Robbins stands at the head of his profes- 
sion, and his reputation is not bound by state 
lines. He has kept pace with the phenomenal 
progress which has been made in the science 
of medicine, and is awarded the foremost place 
by his fellow practitioners. He is a valued mem- 




and a granduncle was killed at the battle of 
Bunker Hill. His grandfather fought all through 
the war for American independence, and lived 
to be present at the unveiling of the Bunker 
Hill monument. The doctor's father. Oilman 
Robbins, was a successful business man of Leo- 
minster, and his mother, whose maiden name 
was Rebecca Dunster, was a descendant of the 
first president of Harvard College. 

Dr. Robbins early determined upon a medical 
career, and was professionally educated in Jef- 
ferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He first 
came to Quincy in 1858, but returned to Phila- 
delphia to complete his medical education, grad- 
uating from Jefferson College in 1861. He com- 



ber of the American Medical Association, the 
Illinois State Medical Society, the Adams 
County Medical Society and the Quincy Medical 
and Library Association and in all gatherings nf 
the profession his opinions are accepted as 
authority. 

While attaining fame in his profession, Dr. 
Robbins has found time to devote to public 
affairs and questions of state, and while he has 
never held office he has for many years exer- 
cised a powerful influence in the councils of the 
republican party in the state and nation. He 
has taken an intelligent interest in all questions 
affecting the welfare of the city, the state and 
the nation, and his council and judgment have 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



always been sought after. His disinterested zeal 
and sound judgment have been recognized and 
appreciated by his fellow-citizens, and he has 
represented the party almost continuously at 
county, congressional district and state conven- 
tions, and in 1876 and again in 1S92 was a dele- 
gate-at-large in the republican national con- 
vention. He was the nominee for the constitu- 
tional convention of 1870 and for congress in 
1876. In 1896 he was urged as a candidate for 
the gubernatorial nomination, and his name 
was presented to the state convention by the 
solid vote of this congressional district. 

Dr. Robbins is endowed with rare literary 
taste, ani his magazine, professional and 
esoteric writings are recognized as classics. He 
was a member of the Quincy board of education 
for many years, and it is largely due to his 
efforts that the public school system of Quincy 
was built up to the high standard of excellence 
which is commended throughout the state. A 
ripe scholar and omnivorous student, he has 
for thirty years been identified with library in- 
terests. He was prominent in the work of the 
old library association, was one of the founders 
of the Quincy Public Library, and was one of 
the first directors of that institution and for 
many years after was a member of the board. 
So eminent has been his library work that unon 
the death of James Russell Young, librarian of 
the congressional library at Washington, Dr. 
Robbins was prominently mentioned as his suc- 
cessor in that exalted and responsible position, 
and his name was seriously considered for some 
time by President McKinley in connection with 
the appointment. 

In addition to all these multifarious interests. 
Dr. Robbins has still further found time to de- 
vote to the ancient order of Free Masonry, and 
in that mystic association has gained a distinc- 
tion which is little short of world wide. He was 
made a Mason in Massachusetts, and his fraters 
of Illinois have conferred upon him every honor 
within their gift. In 1876 he was chosen grand 
master of the Illinois grand lodge of Masons. He 
has reviewed the reports of the grand lodges for 
a number of years, and his Masonic writings are 
accepted as authority. For most of the time for 
thirty years he has prepared the correspon- 
dence reports of the Illinois grand lodge of 
Masons, an exalted work that has made his 
name familiar throughout the length and 
breadth of the Masonic world, the boundaries of 
which are coincident with the circumference of 
the globe. 

Dr. Robbins' eminence as a physician, as a 
scholar and as a Mason but exemplify the indi- 



vidual as a man, as a citizen. He is at all times 
courteous, affable and approachable, is the soul 
of honor and integrity, and is in every way the 
highest type of the American gentleman. His 
wife, .Julia Pratt Robbins, is the editor of the 
Quincy Sunday Optic, and is a lady of liberal 
culture and high lit.rary ;ittainments. 




DR. ROBERT J. CHRISTIE, JR. 

Dr. Robert J. Christie, Jr., was born in Lou- 
doun county, Virginia, in 1864 anl came to 
Quincy with his parents in 1886. Two years 
later he graduated from the medical department 
of Chaddock College and in 1890 graduated from 
the medical department of the University of 
Pennsylvania. He has since been associated 
with his father. Dr. R. J. Christie, Sr., in active 
practice in this city. For four years he was 
surgeon in charge of Blessing Hospital and is 
now a member of the medical board and con- 
sulting surgeon for that Institution. Dr. Chris- 
lie is also ex-president of the Adams County 
Medical Society, a member of the American 
Medical Association and secretary of the Quincy 
Board of Pension Examiners. His prominence 
in surgery is further attested by the fact that 
he is local assistant surgeon of the Hannibal & 
St. Joseph and the St. Louis, Keokuk & North- 
western Railways and surgeon to the Old Peo- 
ple's Home of the German M. E. church. He is 
also physician and surgeon for the Travelers' 
Protective Association and for the United Com- 
mercial Travelers of America. 



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DR. I. T. WILSON. 



In term of active practice Dr. I. T. Wilson is 
the ranlting physician of Quincy and he is also 
one of the most prominent members of his pro- 
fession in this section of Illinois. For nearly 
fifty years he has been practicing medicine in 
this city and he is generally and favorably 
known throughout the community. Dr. Wilson 
was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, March 
24, 1825. He was licensed to practice medicine 
and surgery by the University of Louisville and 
on August 11, 1848, came to this city, but located 



though unsuccessful, for the position of surgeon 
of that command. Soon after he was appointed 
brigade surgeon under General William A. 
Richardson, who was then a member of con- 
gress, but friends of General Richardson in- 
duced him to reluctantly resign his commission 
as brigadier general, on the ground that he 
could be of greater service to his country in con- 
gress than in the field and this resignation de- 
prived Dr. Wilson of his coveted position at the 
front. Then the doctor was appointed surgeon 




at Ursa, where he practiced for two years. He 
then graduated from the University of the City 
of New York and returning to Quincy has been 
engaged in active practice here ever since. 
While at Ursa, in March, 1850, he participated in 
the organization of the Adams County Medical 
Society and is now the only surviving constitu- 
ent member of that body. Immediately after 
the attack on Fort Sumter in the spring of 1861, 
his services on behalf of the Union were ten- 
dered to Governor Yates, and from that time 
until after the close of the war he was actively 
engaged in the Union cause. He made the medi- 
cal examinations for the Sixteenth Illinois In- 
fantry, the first regiment to cross the Missis- 
sippi River at this point, and was a candidate, 

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of the Tenth Illinois Cavalry by Colonel James 
Barrett, of Springfield, sustained a favorable 
examination before the military medical board, 
but failed of confirmation as surgeon through 
the meddlesome interference of a political 
enemy. Early in the war. however, through the 
suggestion of Senator Browning and Captain 
Newton Flagg. he was appointed surgeon by the 
surgeon general of the United States and as- 
sisted in the organization of hospital number 
two, at the corner of Fifth and Jersey streets 
in this city, remaining in charge of that hos- 
pital until three months after the close of the 
war. Not long after taking charge of the hos- 
pital he was appointed surgeon of the prepara- 
tion camp which was maintained north of the 



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city most of the time during the war. This 
additional service, with the care of the hun- 
dreds of sick and wounded soldiers constantly 
in the hospital and the examination of about 
22,000 men for the regular and volunteer ser- 
vice, was loyally performed, although the duties 
left very few hours for rest or sleep. Since the 
close of the war he served sixteen years as a 
member and secretary of the board of pension 
examiners. 

The study and practice of medicine has been 
Dr. Wilson s chief and only ambition. He has 
never been a politician, but always a democrat 
and a supporter of the democratic ticket until 
1896, when he repudiated what he considered 
the undemocratic platform adopted at Chicago. 
He served several years as chairman of the 
Adams county democratic committee and was 
chief marshal on the occasion of the great Lin- 
coln-Douglas debate in this city, October 13, 
1858. Dr. Wilson relates an interesting incident 
of that occasion in vindication of Judge Doug- 
las' political integrity, or what may be termed 
his patriotic inconsistency. After the debate he 
called on Judge Douglas at the home of Dr. 
Samuel Rogers. In the course of the conversa- 
tion the doctor asked the distinguished guest 
why. after announcing a year or two previous, 
that "the Missouri compromise was canonized 
in the hearts of the American people," he had 
voted for the repeal of that measure. Judge 
Douglas replied that for two or three years some 
of the southern senators had been talking to 
him about seceding from the Union, but they 
finally assured him that if he would aid them in 
the repeal of the Missouri compromise they 
would never say anything more about secession. 
"I voted for the repeal." said Judge Douglas, "as 
I believe, in the interest of my country." 

DR. J. H. RICE. 

Dr. J. H. Rice was born in Richfield town- 
ship, Adams county, April 13, 1855. His father, 
the late William Rice, was one of the early 
pioneers, locating in this county in 1834, and 
for a long term of years he was a prominent 
and honored farmer. Dr. Rice graduated from 
the Cincinnati Medical College in 1878 and first 
practiced at Niantic in Macon county. He after- 
wards located at Mendon, where he built up a 
very large practice, in which he was so success- 



ful that he became widely known throughout 
this section of the state. In 1892 he came to 
Quincy, the record of his success in both medi- 
cine and surgery having preceded him and he 
at once established an important practice. Last 
year in order to avail himself of the more recent 
development in medicine and surgery, he took 
a post-graduate course at the Chicago Clinical 
School of Medicine and graduated at Rush Med- 
ical College. He also attended surgical clinics 
at St. Luke's, Chicago, Presbyterian and other 




large Chicago hospitals. To lay aside for sev- 
eral months such a practice as he left here 
required more than ordinary determination, but 
he returned fully equipped in all the latest dis- 
coveries and advancements in his important 
profession. Dr. Rice is a member of the Adams 
county, tri-state, state and national medical 
societies, is surgeon of the Quincy, Omaha & 
Kansas City Railway and a member of the 
Blessing Hospital staff. He is prominent in 
Masonry, being eminent commander of El Aksa 
Commandery, Knights Templar, past high 
priest of Mendon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, 
and a member of Quincy Masonic lodge. He 
was married in 1878 to Miss Mary St. Clair, of 
Mechanicsburg. 111. They have one daughter. 



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DR. HENRY HATCF 

Dr. Henry Hatch was born Feb.uary 22, 1848, 
in Philadelphia, Pa. Left an orphan in very 
early childhood he was obliged to rely on his 
own resources and with him the earnest work 
of life commenced when he was a boy. Coming 
west in 18.56 he found a home near Griggsville, 
111., and alternately attended school and worked 
on a farm. When fifteen years of age he took a 
course in literature and science at the Illinois 
University at Bloomingtou. Three years later 
he became a clerk in a dry goods store at Law- 
rence, Kan., but having decermined on a profes- 
sional career returned to Griggsville in 18B8 and 
began the study of medicine under Dr. E. R. 
Stoner. He afterwards attended three courses 
of lectures at the Louisville Medical College, 
where he received the degree of M. D., February 
28, 1873. In 1880 he took a post-graduate course 
at Long Island College Hospital and then con- 
tinued his studies in Europe, chiefly in Berlin 
and Paris, attending the clinics of some of the 
most eminent surgeons and physicians of 
Europe. On returning to this country he located 
in Quincy in September, 18S1, where he has 
since been engaged in active practice. From 
1882-'87 he was at various times professor, prin- 
ciple and practice, in the medical department of 
Chaddock College. He is also a contributor to 
Appleton's American Encyclopedia and to med- 



ical and surgical literature. Dr. Hatch is a 
member of the Adams County and Illinois Stat_e 
Medical Societies, the American Medical Asso- 
ciation, the American Academy of Railway Sur- 
geons, the International Association of Railway 
Surgeons, the Mississippi Valley Medical Soci- 
ety, the Tri-State Medical Society, of the 
Masonic fraternity and other fraternal organi- 
zations. He was physician in charge of Blessing 
Hospital 1882-'8G, now consulting gyneologist to 
Blessing Hospital, physician in charge of Wood- 
land Home, has been surgeon to the Chicago. 
Burlington & Quincy Railway since 1893, and 
was president of the school board of Griggsville, 
lS7.5-'76. He is at the present time examiner 
for several prominent life insurance companies. 
He was married November 28, 1872. to Miss 
Clara E. Crawford, of Griggsville, who died 
.June 12, 1892. On September 6, 1893, he mar- 
ried Miss Emma L. Lyon, of Sedalia, and they 
! ave one daughter, Marion T.'mma, born April 
ZO, 1S35. 

DR. L. H. A. NICKERSON. 

On April 8, 1637. William Nickerson, of Nor- 
wich, with his family, sailed from Ipswich, Eng- 
land, in the ship "John and Dorothy" to make 
for himself a home in the new world. He 
landed in Boston. June 20, 1637, located at Yar- 
mouth, and while living there made the first of 
a series of purchases of land from the Indians 
in that tract which has since become Chatham, 
which town he and the members of his family 
were principally instrumental in founding. Lin- 
eal descendants are yet living on the land origi- 
nally purchased from the Indians. William 
Nickerson had three sons, one of whom re- 
mained in Massachusetts, a second located in 
Maryland and the third in Delaware, and it is 
from the latter branch that Dr. Nickerson is 
descended. The doctor was born at Camden, 
January 27, 1851, his father being a merchant 
and one of the prominent business men of the 
place. He obtained his early education at Dover 
and Wilmington and graduated in medicine and 
surgery from the University of Pennsylvania in 
March, 1874. For two years he served as resi- 
dent physician in ihe Philadelphia Hospital, 
locating in this city in the spring of 1877, and 
during his more than twenty years' residence 
here he has built up a very extensive practice. 
For several years he had charge of Blessing 
Hospital and is now consulting physician to 
that institution. Dr. Nickerson is nominator 
for the Equitable Life Insurance Company for 



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ten counties in western Illinois ; a charter mem- 
ber and medical examiner for the Royal Arca- 
num; local surgeon for the Wabash Railway; 
ex-president and now treasurer of the Adams 
County Medical Society; member of the Ameri- 
can Medical Association, the American Public 
Health Association and state and other socie- 
ties. He is also president of tlie board of pen- 
sion surgeons. One of his brothers is a sursreon 
In the United States navy. Dr. Nickerson was 
married to Miss Jessie S. Roeschlaub, daughter 
of Dr. Michael Roeschlaub, September 15, 1880, 
and they have one son, Harry L. Dr. Roesch- 
laub was a graduate of the University of Munich 
and his father was dean of that world-famous 
institution and private counselor to the king. 
Dr. Nickerson has always devoted his entire 
time and attention to the practice of his pro- 
fession. 

DR. A. A. WHIPPLE. 

Dr. A. A. Whipple was born on a farm in Cat- 
taraugus county. New York, October 31, 184.5. 
His father served in the Union army and was 
captured at the battle of Gettysburg, sent as a 
prisoner of war to Richmond and then to An- 
dersonville, where he died in July, 1864. Dur- 
ing the trying times of war the care of the fam- 
ily and of five younger children devolved on 
the subject of this sketch. At the age of nine- 



teen Dr. Whipple entered the employ of the 
Erie Railway Company and remained an em- 
ploye of the freight department for seven years. 
He then decided to devote his life to the medical 
profession and went into the office of Dr. 
Henry Learned, at Salamanca, N. Y., afterwards 
graduating from the Eclectic Medical Institute 
of Cincinnati and the Hahnemann Medical Col- 
lege of Chicago. He has since attended surgi- 
cal clinics at the Hahnemann College and 
Pratt's private clinics in surgery. Dr. Whipple 
first commenced practice at Randolph, N. Y., 
but in 1880 came to this city to take the practice 
of the late Dr. Moore and has become one of the 
leading physicians of central Illinois. For a long 
term of years he was treasurer of the State 
Homeopathic Medical Association and after- 
wards president and is prominently identified 
with the American Institute of Homoepathy. 
For several years he was a member of the 
Quincy Board of Health. In Masonic circles he 
has attained imnsual distinction, being grand 
captain of the host of the Grand Chapter of Illi- 
nois, past master of Quincy Lodge, past high 
priest of Quincy Chapter, past commander of 
El-Aksa Commandery, Knights Templar, and 
past commander-in-chief of Quincy Consistory. 
At the triennial conclave held in Boston in 1895 
he was surgeon of the second regiment in the 
tenth division. Dr. Whipple was married in 
October, 1869, to Miss Lydia E. Learned at Sala- 
manca. N. Y., and they have four sons. 




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REPRESENTATIVK MEN AND HOMES. 




DR K. B MONTGOMERY. 
Dr. E. B. Montgomery comes ot a long line of 
well-known men in the medical world, on his 
mother's side reaching back to Dr. David Wish- 
art, of Scotland, his great grandfather, whos:- 
five sons were also prominent physicians. A 
sister of Dr. Wishart was the wife of the cele- 
brated Dr. Abernethy. The founder of the 
American branch of the Montgomery family 
came to this country from France early m the 
seventeenth century and his descendants were 
prominent in the Indian wars and the war ot 
the revolution. Dr. Montgomery was born m 
St Louis, May 11, 1858, and came to Qumcy 
with his parents in January, 1865. He gradu- 
ated from the Quincy High School in 1874, 
attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy 
1874-5 and graduated from the Jefferson Medical 
College in 1S78. He has since been engaged in 
the practice of medicine in this city and has 
become widely known in both medicine and 
surgery From 1880 to 1885 he was secretary 
of the Adams County Medical Society and presi- 
dent of that organization in 1886. In 1884 he 
was a member of the Sanitary Council of the 
Mississippi Valley, under the presidency of Dr 
John H. Rauch and made a sanitary survey of 
this city which was published in the report of 
the State Board of Health the year following. 
Dr. Montgomery is a member of the Illinois 



State, Tri-State, Mississippi Valley and Ameri- 
can Medical Associations. He was a member 
of the committee on organization of the Pan- 
American Medical Congress, which he attended 
in 1893. From 1888 to 1893 he was physician to 
Blessing Hospital, surgeon of the Illinois Sol- 
diers' and Sailors' Home from 1893 to 1897 and 
afterwards acting surgeon to that institution 
and consulting physician to Blessing Hospital. 
He was one of the organizers of the Quincy 
Medical and Library Association in 1897, and is 
examiner for the Northwestern, Mutual Life, 
Metropolitan, Aetna, Prudential, Connecticut 
Mutual, John Hancock and Fidelity Life Insur- 
ance companies. Dr. Montgomery was married 
n 1881 to Miss Agnes Coxe, of this city, and 
they have three daughters and one son. 

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DR. 'WILLIAM S. KNAPHEIDE. 

In addition to a comprehensive professional 
education in this country Dr. Knapheide enjoys 
the advantages of extended study with several 
of the noted teachers and scientists of Europe. 
He was born in Quincy in 1865, his father. 
Henry Knapheide, being one of the early resi- 
dents of the city. After completing a thorough 
literary and commercial education he graduated 
at the Quincy College of Medicine and the Long 




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the oldest and most prominent physicians in 
Island College Hospital in Brooklyn. Then for 
nearly three years he studied abroad, being a 
student of Prof, von Billroth, of Vienna and 
holding the position as intern in the Royal 
Surgical Hospital of Berlin, the finest and most 
perfectly appointed in the world, under the 
direction of Prof, von Bergmann. He received 
his diploma from that noted institution and 
afterwards attended medical and surgical clin- 
ics in Leipsic. Paris and London. Returning to 
Quincy in 1S93 he at once commenced active 
practice and has established a wide reputation 
in medicine and surgery. Devoting his atten- 
tion largely to abdominal surgery, in this line 
of practice he has performed many wonderful 
and successful operations. Dr. Knapheide is a 
member of Blessing Hospital staff, cf the Ber- 
liner Medicinischer Versamehing and is the sur- 
geon of the London Guarantee and Accident 
Company. He was married in 1S95 to Miss 
Mary E. Brenner, of Mendon. and they have one 
son. 

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DR. J. B. SHAWGO. 




Dr. J. B. Shawgo was born in Ohio May 7, 
1843. He moved to Fulton county, Illinois, with 
his parents in 1855 and two years later located 
in Henderson county. He graduated at Abing- 
don College after taking the literary and scien- 
tific courses, receiving the degree of Bachelor of 
Science. His medical studies were prosecuted 
in New York and Chicago, where he had every 
advantage of extensive hospital practice. At 
the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the 
Eighty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was 
appointed a scout, in which capacity he served 
until peace was declared. For some time he 
was one of the chief scouts of General Daniel 
McCook. At ihe terrible battle of Kennesaw 
Mountain, where there were more men shot 
than in any other engagement. Dr. Shawgo was 
standing on the breastworks when his brave 
commander was shot almost by his side and he 
carried him off the field. The scouting experi- 
ence of Dr. Shawgo in Tennessee, Alabama, 
Georgia and North Carolina, in the heart of the 
enemies' country, would fill a volume and would 
prove thrilling reading. After the close of the 
war he was engaged in educational work for 
twelve years, professor of mathematics in Bona- 
rarte Seminary, Iowa, superintendent of schools 
at Camp Point and at Bushnell and in 1877 came 
to Quincy and resumed the practice of his pro- 



fession. For ten years he has been a member of 
the board of pension examiners, his first 
appointment coming from President Harrison. 
He served in the city council four years and was 
chairman of the permanent improvement com- 
mittee that laid the first block of brick pave- 
ment and put in the electric lighting system. 
For twelve years he has been chairman of the 
board of commissioners of the House of Cor- 
rection and he is also president of the Adams 
County Building Association and one of the 
directors of the free public library. Dr. Shawgo 
has a large practice, but finds 'time to devote, to 
the public welfare and is a prominent and pop- 
ular citizen. 



DR. ALBERT H. SCHMIDT. 

On March 4 of the present year Dr. Albert H. 
Schmidt completed his twentieth year of active 
practice in Quincy. Though still a young man 
he has not only built up a very large and lucra- 
tive practice, but has attained a wide reputation 
as a successful physician and surgeon. He was 
born in St. Paul, Minn., February 18, 1858, and 
came to Quincy with his parents in early child- 
hood. His father. Dr. John Schmidt, is one of 



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this section, having lield a leading place in his 
profession for nearly sixty years, practicing in 
this city over forty years. Dr. Albert Schmidt 
received a thorough literary and classical edu- 
cation, after which he received instruction in 
medicine and surgery under his father's per- 
sonal direction for some time and then gradu- 
ated at the Missouri Medical College in 1879. 
He has since taken special courses in various 
departments of medicine and surgery, devoting 
all the time he can command to the investiga- 
tion of new methods and new discoveries. Dr. 
Schmidt was married May 7. 1884, to Miss Susie 
E. Sterne, daughter of Mr. W. C. W. Sterne, one 
of the pioneer residents of the county. They 
have one son and one daughter, Albert H., Jr., 
and Florence G. 

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DR. HENRY HART. 

Dr. Henry Hart is one of the successful physi- 
cians of Quincy, and has the highest standing 
in his profession. He was born at West Point, 
Hancock county, Illinois, February 13, 18t)3, and 
is a son of Dr. J. F. Hart, one of the early set- 
tlers of Hancock county. Dr. Hart, Sr., was one 
of the eminent physicians of western Illinois, 
and had practiced for thirty-five years at West 



Point, where he died in 1896. Henry was edu- 
cated in the public schools, and took a literary 
course at Chaddock College. He studied medi- 
cine at the Quincy College of Medicine, where 
he graduated with the highest honors in 1887. 
He then took a post-graduate course with full 
hospital practice at the Post-Graduate Medical 
School and Hospital of Chicago, thus perfecting 
himself in the science of his chosen profession. 
He commenced the practice of medicine with his 
father in Hancock county, and remained with 
him for two years, when he came to Quincy, 
opening his office here in April, 1890. His abil- 
ities were promptly recognized by the public 
and his professional associates, and he soon 
assumed a prominent position in the commun- 
ity. In October, 1890, he was appointed medi- 
cal officer by the Quincy Board of Health during 
the scarlet fever and diphtheria epidemic. of 
that year, and his wise care, knowledge of the 
nature of the disease and wisdom of treatment 
did much to check the scourges and stamp out 
the epidemic. He is a member of the medical 
staff of St. Mary's Hospital, physician to the 
female station, and is also a member of the 
surgical staff of the hospital as gynecologist. He 
is a member of the American Medical Associa- 
tion, the Adams County Medical Society and the 
Quincy Medical and Library Association. 




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DR. J. D. JUSTICE. 

Dr. J. D. Justice was born on a farm in Scot- 
land county, Missouri, September 22, 1854. After 
receiving a common school education he gradu- 
ated at the Missouri Medical College, March 5. 
1S7S, and practiced medicine for two years with 
Dr. W. A. Monroe at Memphis, Mo. He then 
located at Belle Plain, Kan., where he practiced 
for several years. He was the local surgeon for 
the Missouri Pacific Railway and a member of 
the Kansas state and county societies. During his 
residence in the west he took a post-graduate 
course in microscopy in the laboratory of the 
late Karl Heitzmann in New York, and attended 
the surgical clinics of Thomas H. Manley at 
Harlem Hospital, John A. Wyeth and Paul F. 
Mundie at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Charles A. Mc- 
Bernie of the Roosevelt system; in addition he 
attended the Vanderbilt medical clinics and the 
clinics of the Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 
lege. In March, 1894, Dr. Justice located in 
Quincy, where he has established an excellent 
and successful practice. He is assistant chief 
surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital and chief sur- 
geon of the FairchiUi Sanitorium. He is also a 
member of the International Association of 
Railway Surgeons and of the Military Tract 
Medical Society. 



DR. OTIS JOHNSTON. 

Dr. Otis Johnston was born in this city July 
29, 1867, and graduated at the Quincy College 
of Medicine in 1889. He afterwards attended 
medical and surgical clinics in Chicago and St. 
Louis, giving special attention to advanced sur- 
gery, having special talent in surgical work. 
For a time he was engaged in practice with the 
late Dr. Lee, but afterwards occupied his pres- 
ent office and residence at the southwest corner 
of Eighth and Hampshire streets. For seven 
years Dr. Johnston has been surgeon-in-chief 
to St. Mary's Hospital. He was chief surgeon 
for the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railway 
and has lately been appointed local surgeon of 
the Port Arthur system. He is also Supreme 
Medical Examiner for the Degree of Honor for 
Illinois. He enjoys a very extensive and suc- 
cessful practice in surgery, reaching out to sur- 
rounding towns and has gained an enviable 
reputation in this branch of his profession, as 
well as in medical practice. Dr. Johnston is a 
member of the American Medical Association, 
the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, Illi- 
nois Slate and Adams County Medical Societies 
and is an active member of the International 
Association of Railway Surgeons. He was mar- 
ried December 1, 1892, to Miss Maud Harrington 
Grieser, of this city. 




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DR. F. E. NICHOLS. 

Dr. F. S. Nichols was born in Essex county, 
New York, in 18C1. His ancestors tor three 
generations were farmers in the Empire State 
and in the pioneer clays were sturdy soldiers of 
the revolution and in the war of 1S12. When a 
boy the doctor moved with his parents to north- 
ern Iowa and at seventeen, having decided to 
secure a professional education, started out on 
his own responsibility. Energy and pluck, sup- 
plemented by constant hard work, afforded him 
a three-years' course at the Nebraska Wesleyan 
University and he then graduated at the Hahne- 
mann Medical College in Chicago. He practiced 
at Piano, 111., four years and in 1894 located in 
this city, where he has built up a substantial 
practice, reaching out into the neighboring 
towns. Dr. Nichols was married in 1S90 to Miss 
Jesse M. Ewen, of York, Neb., and they have 
one son and one daughter. His spacious offices 



in the Dodd building are most artistically 
arranged and furnished, the ladies' reception 
room being a gem in pure Moorish art. 

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DR. CHARLES DE'WEY CENTER. 

Dr. Center was born at Ottawa, 111., July 8, 
1869. He is a graduate of Knox Academy, Knox 
College, Rush Medical College and served a full 
term of service in the Presbyterian Hospital, 
Chicago, as house surgeon. While in the hos- 
pital he made a specialty of female surgery. His 
first practice was at Iron Belt, Wis., on the 
Gogebic range and he then practiced for a time 
at the Palmer House, Chicago. In April, 1896, 
he came to Quincy. Dr. Center is on the Bless- 
ing Hospital staff and has built up an extensive 
medical and surgical practice, in which he has 
been uniformly successful. His offices are in 
the new Dodd building. 




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THE DENTAL PROFESSION. 



DR. ROBERT A. GARDNER. 



There are many dentists in Quincy, but none 
of them Tunk higher than Robert Adams Gard- 
ner. He was born at Battle Creelv, Mich., Sep- 
tember 1, 1861, his parents being of Scotch 



surgery. Dr. Gardner has kept fully abreast of 
the times in the progress of his profession, and 
his talents have placed him in the front rank of 
dentists. Dr. Gardner is a Mason of exalted 




descent. When a child his parents moved to 
Hannibal, Mo., where he attended the common 
schools. He moved to Quincy with his parents 
while a boy in his teens, and this city has been 
his home ever since. Deciding upon dentistry 
as a profession, he went into the office of Dr. 
Frederick P. Moore, where he remained for six 
years. In 1SS8 he entered the American Dental 
College at Chicago, where he took the full 
course, and graduated with high honors March 
26, 1890. He then returned to Quincy and 
entered upon the practice of his profession, in 
which he has been very successful. His offices 
occupy a choice suite of rooms in the Wells 
building, and they are equipped with all the 
latest appliances and Instruments of dental 



degree, being a Knight Templar of El Aksa 
Commandery, a member of Quincy Consistory, 
and a noble of Medina Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine. 

He was married December 17, 1885, to Miss 
Mamie Oertle, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Joseph Oertle. of this city. They have two chil- 
dren — Robert William and Helen — and a cordial 
welcome always awaits their friends at their 
home on Hampshire street. Dr. Gardner is a 
member of several societies, professional and 
social, including the Knights of Pythias and 
Royal Arcanum, and his purse is always open 
to the assistance of the needy and the further- 
ance of any worthy cause. 



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DR, THOMAS D. GARDNER. 
Dr. Thomas D. Gardner was born in Liver- 
pool, England, in 1S62. His father, the late 
John Gardner, was a son of James Gardner. 
Esq., of Edinburgh, one of the most noted scien- 
tists of Eui'ope. Coming to Quincy with his 
parents in 1867, Dr. Gardner obtained a compre- 
hensive literary education and tlien learned the 
machinist's trade at the Gardner Governor 
Works. Deciding to adopt the dental profes- 
sion he graduated from the Chicago College of 
Dental Surgery in 1888 and took a post graduate 
course. The year following his graduation he 
succeeded to the extensive practice of Dr. T. L. 
Gilmer, at that time the most eminent surgeon 
dentist in Quincy and he has fully sustained the 
enviable reputation of his predecessor. In ten 
years Dr. Gardner has taken prominent rank 
among the successful surgeon dentists of the 
state. He was married in 1895 to Miss May 
Barr, of this city. 



DR. H. F. NAUMANN. 
Among the younger dentists of Quincy Dr. H. 
F. Naumann holds a prominent place in his pro- 
fession. He located here in the spring of 1892 
and in seven years has established a large and 
prosperous practice, being well and favorably 
known in many of the surrounding towns. Dr. 
Naumann was born at Belleville, 111., March 30, 
1871. His professional education was supple- 
mented by careful study at the Wesleyan Uni- 
versity at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and at the Cen- 
tral Wesleyan College at Warrenton, Mo. In 
1892 he graduated in surgeon dentistry at the 
Missouri Dental College in St. Louis, the dental 
department of the Washington University. It 
was then that he opened his office in this city, 
where he has since been in active practice. He 
is a close student, keeping himself fully in- 
formed in all developments of his chosen pro- 
fession. Dr. Naumann was married in 1894 to 
Miss Nellie Grimpe, of Warsaw, 111. 




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IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



CAPT. HARRY D. BLASLAND. 



When the call for troops was issued by Presi- 
dent IMcKinley in the Spanish-American war, 
Captain Blasland was one of the iirst to volun- 
teer. He is the captain of Company F, Fifth 
Regiment, Illinois National Guard, and his men 
stood by him almost to a man. For twelve 
years he has been identified with the National 
Guard, enlisting first in Company D, Fifth Regi- 
ment, in 1887, as a private. Three years later 



ordered to Chickamauga and was the first vol- 
unteer regiment in camp in the south. This 
was also one of the first regiments ordered to 
Cuba, but for some unexplained reason the 
order was countermanded after the soldiers 
were on the cars ready to start to the seaboard. 
After tiresome weeks of waiting, orders came 
for the Fifth to proceed to Porto Rico. They 
went to Newport News and were loaded on a 




he went to St. Joseph, Mo., and was one of the 
organizers of the military company in that city, 
holding the position of first sergeant. On his 
return to Quincy in 1S94, Company D having 
been mustered out of service, he assisted in 
organizing Company F and was elected first 
lieutenant on September 11. On October 26. 
1896, he was elected captain and at once pro- 
ceeded to enforce strict discipline, bringing the 
company up to the highest state of efficiency. 
For the Cuban war he recruited the company to 
106 men and in addition furnished a number of 
men for the Sixth Regiment. After two we^eks 
in camp at Springfield, the Fifth Regiment was 



transport ready to start, when they were turned 
back a second time by the signing of the peace 
protocol. From Newport News they were 
ordered to Lexington, where they remained 
until they returned to Springfield and were mus- 
tered out October 16, 1898. Quincy will never 
forget the farewell to her brave soldier boys 
when they left for the front in the early spring 
morning. Amid the booming of cannon and 
ringing of bells the whole city assembled at the 
train to bid them God-speed. But the welcome 
home eclipsed even the farewell and was such 
a demonstration as the city never before wit- 
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nobly. They had responded to every duty and 
were ready to offer their lives in the cause of 
liberty. All Quincy was proud of them and all 
the people did them honor. In closing the mili- 
tary biography of Captain Blasland it should be 
said that he is an ideal soldier and a born com- 
mander. Of unusual physical strength and 
physical courage, he is quiet and reserved, yet 
quick to act and prompt to execute. He com- 
mands the confidence of his men and the respect 
of his superior officers. In civil life Captain 
Blasland is bookkeeper and cashier of the Gem 
City Saw Mill Company. He is a son of Mr. S. 
A Blasland, of St. Louis, for many years one ol 
the leading and most highly respected wholesale 
merchants of this city. Born in Boston August 
2 1870, he came to Quincy with his Parents m 
1871 After attending the public schools of this 
city' and the Billerica Academy, near Boston, 
he went into the wholesale boot and shoe house 
of K ngsbury, Blasland & Co. In 1890 he wen 

o St. Joseph with his father and >ater accept d 
a position with the North River Sho and 
Leather Company in New York, in yhi^^/^^ 
father was interested. In 1893 he returned to 
Quincy and identified himself with the saw mill 
company. In July of this year Captain Blas- 

and was appointed by President McKinley firs 
lieutenant of the Thirty-fourth United States 
infantry and left with his regiment for service 
in the Philippines. 

DR. HENRY L. WHIPPLE. 
Dr Henry L. Whipple, formerly first lieuten- 
ant of Company F and now inspector of rifle 
practice for the Fifth Regiment, has contributed 
largely in establishing the enviable reputation 
which the Quincy company enjoys as one of the 
finest commands in the Illinois National Guard. 
Enlisting in Company D in 1886 as a private he 
was promoted to every office up to and includ- 
ing second lieutenant, resigning the last named 
office to attend dental college. On his return 
to Quincy he enlisted in Company F and in 1896 
was elected first lieutenant. Dr. Whipple served 
with distinction in the Cuban campaign. He 

was appointed commissary of . ^^^^ ™/,'tfff 
ment by Colonel Culver, serving on the statt 
until the regiment was mustered out and com- 
manding to the fullest degree the respect and 
confidence of his superior officers, as well as the 
good will and esteem of the men in the ranks. 
In May of this year he was appointed by Colonel 
Culver inspector of rifle practice, with the rank 
of captain. 




Dr. Whipple is a son of Dr. A. A. Whipple and 
was liorn at Salamanca, N. Y., January 3, 1871. 
He came here with his parents in 1880 and on 
completing his literary education graduated 
from the Chicago College of Dental Surgery in 
1894, receiving the degree of D. D. S. He is a 
member of the faculty of the Keokuk Dental 
College, being adjunct professor of operative 
dentistry and is also dental surgeon of Blessing 
Hospital, and a member of the Illinois State 
Dental Society. He ranks among the leading 
dentists of the city and has built up an exten- 
sive practice. Dr. Whipple was married July 
20, 1891, to Miss Alice C. Reed, of this city, and 
they have one son and one daughter. 

LIEUT. JOHN R. McLELLAN. 

Lieutenant John R. McLellan is a southerner 
by birth, having first seen the light at Bagdad, 
Florida, February 9, 1874. His father and 
mother were both natives of Scotland, having 
located in Florida in 1872. Lieutenant McLel- 
lan came north when a young man and in Sep- 
tember, 1890, located in Quincy, entering the 
office of the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City 
Railroad. His abilities soon advanced him to 
the position of chief clerk in the auditor's office, 
and when the road was merged into the Port 
Arthur system he was transferred to the general 
offices in Kansas City. He continued in the 



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railroad service until he went to the front in the 
war with Spain in the spring of 1898. He early 
had a liking for military affairs, and in the 
spring of 1893 enlisted as a private in Company 
D, Fifth Regiment, Illinois National Guard. He 
was soon appointed a sergeant, and when that 
company was mustered out he assisted in the 
organization of Company F of the same regi- 
ment in September, 1894, and was appointed 
third sergeant. He was steadily advanced until 
in October, 1896, he was elected second lieuten- 
ant of the company. When the war with Spain 
broke out and the president called for troops 
Lieutenant McLellan was one of the first to offer 
his services with the company. He was com- 
missioned a lieutenant in the Fifth Illinois 
Infantry, and served with that command during 
the war. 

When the war was over and the regiment was 
mustered out of the United States service. Lieu- 
tenant McLellan returned to Quincy, and 
entered the employ of the Adams Express Com- 
pany as cashier of the local office, but in May 
resigned this position to accept a position in the 
general offices of the Omaha, Kansas City & 
Eastern Railway. He is an expert accountant, 
as he was a good soldier, and enjoys the highest 
degree of personal popularity. At the present 
time he is bookkeeper and cashier for the Gem 
City Saw Mill Company. 



ADJUTANT ALFRED L. CASTLE. 

Alfred L. Castle was born in this city March 
2, 1875, and is a son of Mr. Chauncey H. Castle. 
After leaving the public schools he attended the 
Western Military Academy at Alton, holding 
every office in the academy service from cor- 
poral to first lieutenant and graduating at 
brevet second lieutenant in the Illinois National 
Guard. He went into Company F of this city 
in 1894 as second sergeant and sergeant major 
of the battalion. In April, 1897, he was elected 
first lieutenant and adjutant of the second bat- 
talion. When the Cuban war broke out he went 
into the service as battalion adjutant of the 
second batalion. Fifth Regiment, which position 
he held until the regiment was mustered out of 
service. Early in the war it was generally 
believed that additional troops would be 
required and Adjutant Castle recruited a full 
battalion of four companies ready for service, 
but fortunately they were not needed. The son 
of a brave soldier, he is full of loyalty and patri- 
otism and is an exceptionally good commanding 
officer. He is a fine horseman and his courage 
has never been questioned. Adjutant Castle 
became identified with the Comstock-Castle 
Stove Company in 1894 and now represents the 
company on the road in the south and west. 




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THE BENCH AND BAR. 



JUDGE JOSEPH 

Quincy has given many eminent men to the 
public service of the state and nation, and 
among these is Joseph N. Carter, chief justice 
of the supreme court of Illinois. Judge Carter 
is a quiet and unostentatious gentleman, always 
the same to friends old and new, and yet he 
ranks as one of the ablest jurists in the country. 
He is a Kentuckian by birth, his ancestors com- 
ing from Virginia. He first saw the light in 



N. CARTER. 

Michigan at Ann Arbor. He graduated there in 
1868, and came to Quincy in 1869, being 
admitted to the bar the same year. The next 
year he formed a law partnership with William 
H. Govert, which continued uninterruptedly 
until 1879, when Judge Sibley became a member 
of the firm, retiring in 1884. In 1888 Mr. Theo- 
dore Pape was admitted to membership and the 
firm of Carter, Govert & Pape was continued 




a ^ i^ \) 




Hardin county, Kentucky, and was the fourth 
of ten children born to William P. and Martha 
(Mays) Carter. His grandfather, James Carter, 
was a Virginian, and traced his ancestry back to 
England. His mother was also a native of the 
Old Dominion. In 1857, when the future jurist 
was fourteen years of age, his parents removed 
to Charleston, Coles county, Illinois, and he 
came with them. A year later they removed to 
Douglas county, this state. He acquired his 
early education at Big Springs, Ky., and Tus- 
cola, 111., and then taught a country school for 
three years. He entered Illinois College at 
Jacksonville in 1863, graduating in 1866, and 
having decided upon the law as a profession 
entered the law department of the University of 



until Judge Carter's election to the supreme 
bench in 1894. 

Judge Carter is a republican in politics, and in 
1878 was elected as a member of the lower house 
of the thirty-first general assembly. So ably 
did he serve his constituents that he was re- 
elected in 1880. In 1882 he was nominated by 
his party for state senator, and so great wat 
his personal popularity that while the district 
was democratic by 1,500 he was defeated by less 
than 500. 

In 1894 Judge Carter was nominated by the 
republicans of the Fourth supreme judicial dis- 
trict as their candidate for the supreme court 
to succeed Judge Simeon P. Shope. The district 
was democratic by 12,000, being composed of 



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twelve counties. Judge Carter's abilities were 
so fully recognized and his personal popularity 
was so great that that majority was overcome 
and he was elected by 4,500. The campaign 
attracted attention all over the country, and 
.Judge Carter at once sprang into national fame. 
His services on the supreme bench have been 
brilliant, and in 1898 he became chief justice of 
that august tribunal. 

Judge Carter was married in 1879 to Miss Nel- 
lie Barren, of Springfield, 111. Her father, 
George Barrell, was a famous sea captain, and 
had visited every habitable portion of the globe. 
They have three children— Henry B., who is 
now at Princeton College, William Douglas and 
Josephine. 

JUDGE JOHN C. BROADY. 

Judge John C. Broady is a fair example of 
what can be accomplished under adverse condi- 
tions and by individual effort and determina- 
tion. He was born on a farm near Liberty, in 
this county, June 29, 1849. In his boyhood he 
was large of his age, strong and willing to work 
and more than the ordinary share of farm duties 
devolved on him. Pond of books he early de- 
termined to secure an education. Up to the 
beginning of his twenty-first year, however, his 




schooling was confined to the district school 
and Quincy schools and such reading and study 
as he could combine with his work. Then he 
taught school in Richfield township for a short 
time, saving money enough to enter the law 
department of the Michigan University. The 
libraries afforded opportunities for gratifying 
his taste for books and he was a constant reader 
and a close student. After graduating he read 
law for a time with Judge Thompson and was 
admitted to the bar in June, 1874. As Judge 
Thompson used to say, he was as poor as a 
church mouse. But he had a thorough knowl- 
edge of the law and was a safe adviser and 
counselor. Applying himself closely, business 
came to him and success in his profession was 
not long delayed. He had never been known 
as an active politician and had never held office 
or been a candidate for office until he was nomi- 
nated for circuit judge in the democratic con- 
vention of 1897. On the bench Judge Broady is 
a painstaking and impartial judge. He has a 
marked judicial turn of mind, close application 
and attention to details being strong character- 
istics. He is interested in important business 
enterprises in Quincy and has gained more than 
the ordinary degree of success in the profes- 
sion to which he is devoted. 

JUDGE CARL E. EPLER. 

Judge Carl B. Epler, county judge of Adams 
county, is one of the youngest jurists in the 
state, but his services on the bench have won 
him a most enviable reputation. He was born 
at Jacksonville, 111., his father, Judge Cyrus 
Epler, served on the circuit bench for many 
years. Judge Epler graduated at Illinois Col- 
lege at Jacksonville in 1876, and was the vale- 
dictorian of his class. He took a course at Yale 
in 1877 and 1878, receiving the degree of M. A. 
from that famous college, and then studied law 
in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. 
He was admitted to the bar of Illinois in June, 
1879, and came to Quincy in 1880, beginning the 
practice of law in the office of the late Colonel 
W. W. Berry. 

In politics Judge Epler is a democrat, and 
soon became one of the local leaders of that 
party. He was elected city attorney in 1881, 
and served for three successive terms in that 
office. During his term of office he represented 
the city in some very important litigation, in- 
cluding the city bond cases and the old water 
works contract, in which he successfully de- 
fended the city and materially aided in the mak- 



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ing of new and more favorable contracts. He 
was instrumental in police court reform, and 
drafted the ordinance making the police magis- 
trate a salaried officer, instead of being paid by 
fees In 1S85 Judge Epler revised the city code, 
and in 1886 placed $150,000 of Quincy refunding 
bonds at 41/2 per cent, being the first Quincy 
bonds floated at that low rate of interest. 

He was elected state's attorney in 1891, and 
as such conducted the prosecution of W. J. 
.lamieson for the murder of Charles Aaron. The 
case was carried to the United States supreme 
court by the defense, but the state won. and 
.lamieson was hanged. Among other important 
cases conducted by him was the famous Knox 
shooting affair, and the perjury cases growing 
out of it. 

.Judge Epler was elected county judge in No- 
vember. 1894, defeating for the nomination of 
his party the previous summer .Judge B. F. Ber- 
rian, who had been county judge for seventeen 
years. He was re-elected in 1898 for another 
term of four vears. Some very important cases 
have come before Judge Epler since his eleva- 
tion to the bench, and his decisions have given 
satisfaction. He was the first judge in the state 
to pass on the validity of the inheritance tax 
law, and his decision upholding that law has 
since been affirmed by the supreme court. 



HON. WILLIAM SCHLAGENHAUF. 
The Hon. William Schlagenhauf, republican 
member of the general assembly from this dis- 
trict, was born in Belleville, 111., March 8, 18b,. 
He graduated from the Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Ger- 
man College and from the law department of 
the Michigan State University. In June, 1890, 
he opened an office for the practice of law in 
this city with the late Colonel Berry and has 
gained for himself an enviable reputation at he 
bar. Exercising great care m preparing hs 
cases, a constant student and a tireless worUm 
his comprehensive knowledge of the law makes 
him unusually successful in ^'^'^''l'^^^'. 
was assistant city attorney under M . Home 
Swope. In 1892 he was president of the South 
Side Republican Club, the largest political 
organization ever formed in Quincy, and in 
1S9G was secretary of that organization. Last 
fall he was elected to the state legislature and 
though one of the younger members has taken 
prominent part in framing legislation. He is 
chairman of the committee on Soldiers Home 
and Soldiers' Orphans' Home and a member of 
the committee on claims, elections, judiciary, 
revenue, municipal corporations, state institu- 
tions and fish and game, a list that includes 
several of the most important committees of the 
house. Mr. Schlagenhauf was married in 189Z 
to Miss Lillie M. Uecke, of this city, and they 
have one son and one daughter. 




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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 



GEN. ELISHA B, HAMILTON. 



As soldier, lawyer and citizen, the name of 
General Elisha B. Hamilton ranks among the 
foremost of Quincy men who have won a repu- 
tation which extends beyond the borders of the 
state. He was born at Carthage, Hancock 
County, Illinois, October 5, 1838, and his life 
has been a busy one since his earliest boyhood. 
His father, Artois Hamilton, was born at Tol- 
land, Mass., and his mother, Atta Bentley, at 



was the youngest of six children, and his early 
boyhood was spent among the thrilling scenes 
of the Mormon war, which stirred the state at 
that time. He saw Joseph Smith when he 
jumped from the window of the Carthage jail 
and was killed by the mob. He had two broth- 
ers, Marvin and William, in the company of 
Carthage Greys, which guarded the jail the day 
the prophets were killed, ana participated in 




Mayfield, N. Y. They were married February 
22, 1827, and moved to Carthage in 1835. Here 
the father purchased a large tract of land, 
which he made into a number of farms. For 
many years he kept the "vlaage tavern" at 
Carthage, which was known far and wide, and 
was the resort for Lincoln, Douglas, Mitchell, 
Judge Logan, O. H. Browning. Bushnell and all 
the prominent lawyers and public men of that 
day who visited this part of the state in cam- 
paigns or on the regular circuit. 

It was in this tavern that the bodies of Joseph 
and Hiram Smith, the Mormon prophets, were 
laid out on the night of their killing at the 
Carthage jail June 27, 1844, and on the following 
morning General Hamilton's father took the 
bodies of the dead Mormon leaders and deliv- 
ered them to their friends at Nauvoo. Elisha 



what became known as the battle of Nauvoo lu 
the fall of 1846. 

As a boy. General Hamilton worked on the 
farm in spring and summer, and attended the 
country school in winter, that being before the 
days of public schools, and when the teachers 
"hired out" and "boarded 'round." He lost his 
mother in the cholera epidemic of 1851. The 
dread scourge entered the family in July of that 
year, and the mother, a brother, sister and. two 
aunts died within a few days. Four persons 
died in the house the first day, all having been 
apparently well in the morning. 

In the fall of 1856 he entered Illinois College 
at Jacksonville, and has ever retained a warm 
spot in his heart for his alma mater. The trip 
from Carthage to Jacksonville was a rather 
tedious one in those days, the young student 



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going by carriage from Carthage to Plymouth, 
from there by the old Northern Cross Railroad 
to Camp Point, where he stayed over night, 
thence by stage east, breakfast at Mt. Sterling, 
dinner at Meredosia, and on to Naples, there in 
the afternoon he took the Great Western Rail- 
road to Jacksonville, being a day and a half on 
the way. He graduated at Illinois College .June 
21, 1S60, with the degree of B. S., and on June 6, 
1873, the college voluntarily conferred upon him 
the degree of A. B. In college he was a member 
of the Phi Alpha Society, and is ever a welcome 
visitor there now, the college counting him 
among the most distinguished of its alumni. 

General Hamilton early took an interest in 
military matters and before the civil war he 
was for three years a member of the Carthage 
Guards, a noted military company of those days. 
In August, 1862, at Carthage, he enlisted in what 
became Company B. One Hundred and Eigh- 
teenth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, and served 
with that regiment until the fall of 1865, partici- 
pating with it in all the battles, where its valor 
made it one of the famous commands of the 
western armies. He won distinction in a num- 
ber of hard-fought engagements, and on Novem- 
ber 14. 1863, he was commissioned first lieuten- 
ant of his company for gallant and meritorious 
service. He was mustered out in October, 1865, 
having served over three years continuously 
with his regiment at the front, participating in 
Sherman's first attack on Vicksburg. Grant's 
campaign around and siege of Vicksburg, the 
siege and capture of Jackson. Miss., Franklin's 
march into western Louisiana, and battle of 
Grand Couteau. Davidson's famous raid, and 
numerous cavalry raids and fights. Near the 
close of his service he was assistant adjutant 
general on the staff of General Fonda, com- 
manding the district of Baton Rouge, La. 

General Hamilton continued his interest in 
military matters after leaving the United States 
service, and in 1S72 he assisted in organizing 
the well-known company of Quincy National 
Guards, in which he was commissioned first 
lieutenant by Governor Beveridge January 14, 
1873, and became captain in 1876. He was in 
command of the Eighth Illinois Infantry at East 
St. Louis during the great strike of 1877, and for 
his efficient services there was promoted to 
brigadier general by Governor CuUom, his com- 
mission bearing date February 26, 1878. He 
was successively appointed inspector general for 
the state of Illinois by Governors Cullom, Ham- 



ilton and Oglesby, and served until October, 
1887, when he resigned. His efficient services 
in the organization and perfection of the Illinois 
National Guard have been fully appreciated by 
all the commanders of the state troops. 

General Hamilton moved to Quincy in 1866, 
and entered the office of Warren & Wheat, 
where he read law, and was admitted to prac- 
tice by the supreme court of Illinois in January, 
1869. He has been a member of the firms of 
Warren, Wheat & Hamilton, Wheat, Ewing & 
Hamilton, and Ewing & Hamilton, and is at 
present the senior member of the firm of Ham- 
ilton & Woods, all of which firms have been well 
known for their ability and business. He prac- 
ticed law at Kansas City, Mo., from the summer 
cf 1887 to the spring of 1891. 

In politics General Hamilton is an aggressive 
republican and wields a powerful influence in 
the councils of that party. He has never held 
an elective office, although i-epeatedly urged to 
permit the use of his name for high position. 
In 1868 President Johnson appointed him sur- 
veyor of customs of the port of Quincy and 
President Grant reappointed him in 1872. He 
was successively appointed deputy United 
States marshal for this section of the state by 
Marshals Tanner and Wheeler. 

General Hamilton is a prominent Grand Army 
man, and has been an aide upon the staffs of 
many of the national commanders. He was 
senior vice-commander of the department of 
Illinois in 1893-4, and is at present judge advo- 
cate of the department. He has served a num- 
ber of terms as commander of John Wood Post, 
No. 96. He is a member of the Society of the 
Army jf the Tennessee, and at one time vice 
presi .ent, and is also a member of the Loyal 
Legion. A Mason of high degree, he is a mem- 
ber of Quincy lodge. Quincy chapter, R. A. M., 
and El Aksa commandery of Knights Templar. 
He was a member of the Encore club, and part 
of the time president, a literary society which 
existed here many years, and from which sprang 
the present splendid public library. With 
Messrs. Emery, Holmes, Bishop. Mills, Keath, 
Keyes, Doyen, McFaden and others, he gave 
courses of lectures and raised large sums of 
money, which were turned into the then small 
treasury of the public library, the nucleus of 
the present grand institution. General Hamil- 
ton was married September 10. 1878, to Miss 
Mary E. Fisk, of this city, and they have one 
son and one daughter. Elisha B. Hamilton, Jr., 
now at Illinois College, and Lucy A. 



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WILLIAM H. GOVERT. 
One of the ablest members of the Quincy bai- 
ls William H. Covert, senior member of the 
well-known law firm of Govert & Pape He 
was born in Fort Madison, Iowa, September 10 
1844. and graduated with high honors in the 
literary department of Illinois College at Jack- 
sonville in 1867. He then became a student in 
the law department of the University of Miclii- 
gan at Ann Arbor, where he graduated in 1870 
Immediately after his graduation he came to 
Quincy, and was admitted to the bar the same 
year, 1870, commencing the practice of his pro- 
fession with Joseph N. Carter, the firm name 
being Carter & Govert. The firm continued 
without change until 1888, when Theodore Pape 
was admitted, the name then becoming Carter 
Govert & Pape, and when Judge Carter was 
chosen to the bench of the supreme court in 
1894 it became Govert & Pape. 

Mr. Govert is recognized as one of the bril- 
liant attorneys of Illinois, and his practice is a 
most lucrative one. He was elected city attor- 
ney in 1872. and served two terms. He was 
then elected state's attorney, succeeding Judge 
W. G. Ewing, in 1876, and served two terms in 
that position. He is also actively interested in 
several of the largest financial and industrial 
institutions of Quincy. He is one of the propri- 
etors of the State Street Bank, and also a stock- 



holder in the Ricker National and the Quincy 
National Banks. He is president of the Collins 
Plow Company, president of the J. R. Little 
:\IetaI Wheel Company, president of the Qiiincy 
Corn Planter Company, president of the Quincy 
Pressed Brick Company, a director in the Gem 
City Stove Company and a director of the P. W. 
Menke Stone and Lime Company. 

He was married September 25, 187.3, to Miss 
Rosa P. Wood, of Jacksonville, and their home 
at Twelfth and Vine streets is one of the pleas- 
antest in the city. They have one son and two 
daughters, Anna and Edith. The son, George 
graduated with honors at Yale University and is 
now studying law at the University of Michigan. 

L. E. EMMONS, SR. 
Mr. L. E. Emmons, the eminent attorney, was 
born in New York City, but came west" when 
quite a boy, and was reared on a farm near 
Bristol, 111. He went to the district school in 
the winter lime, and attended two terms at Mt 
Morris Seminary. At twenty-three he com- 
menced the study of law in the law department 
of the old Chicago University,, graduated in ISCl 
and was admitted to practice by the supreme' 
court the same year. He practiced his profes- 




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sion in Kendall county until 1S64, when he en- 
listed in the army and helped to organize the 
One Hundred and Forty-seventh Illinois Infan- 
try. He was commissioned first lieutenant, but 
was assigned by the department to detached 
service as ordnanca officer, subsequently as 
assistant commissary, in which position he 
served until discharged in March, 1S66. He was 
married to Miss Fletcher in Marietta, Ga., in 
May, 1S66, and came to Quincy in September of 
that year. He at once opened a law office, and 
has been in active practice here ever since, ris- 
ing to a most eminent position at the bar, a 
place which has been won by his comprehensive 
knowledge of the law and his conscientious care 
of the interests of his clients. His first partners 
were General B. M. Premiss, the hero of the 
battle of Shiloh, and M. R. Buttz. In 1875 Mr. 
Emmons formed a partnership with the late 
Senator Albert W. Wells, which continued to 
the death of the latter in 1896. and he then took 
his son, L. E. Emmons, Jr., as his partner. 

Mr. Emmons has been a member of the Epis- 
copal church since 1872, and on the formation of 
the Diocese of Quincy was appointed by the 
bishop chancellor of the Cathedral of St. John. 
He has been junior warden of that church for 
the past ten years. Mr. and Mrs. Emmons have 
two children — one son, his law partner, and one 
daughter. 

JAMES N. SPRIGG. 

Mr. James N. Sprigg was born in a log house 
on a farm in Schuyler county, August 15, 1850. 
His early life was spent at hard farm work, 
plowing bare-footed, and a man's work about 
the farm being his daily task during his early 
boyhood. His early education and the founda- 
tion for his later study was obtained at home. 
The teacher of the district school usually 
boarded at his house and assisted him in his 
lessons in the erening after his work was done, 
his love for books often inspiring him to study 
far into the night. In 1876 he graduated from 
Harvard University with the degree of L. L. B. 
and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar on 
public examination in open court. Soon after 
he located in Quincy. being admitted by the 
supreme court to the Illinois bar and began the 
practice of his profession. He afterwards 
became a member of the bar of the United 
States district court, the circuit, appellate and 
supreme courts and has since been engaged in 
general practice. For about two years after 
coming to Quincy he was a member of the firm 



of Keath & Sprigg and was then alone until 
1886, when the firm of Sprigg & Anderson was 
formed, continuing until 1896, with the excep- 
tion of two years, when the title was Sprigg, 
Anderson & Vandeventer. In association with 
Mr. Anderson, Mr. Sprigg acted for several 
years as corporation counsel for the city. In 
1893 he succeeded the late Mr. Wheat as county 
attorney for Adams county, by appointment of 
the board of supervisors, which position he still 
holds. Politically, Mr. Sprigg inherited the 
faith of the old-fashioned abolitionists, early 




acquiring prejudices against human slavery, all 
tendency thereto being hateful and abhorrent to 
him. Up to Cleveland's second term he had 
voted the republican ticket and in the last 
national campaign he endorsed the democratic 
platform adopted at Chicago, being now one of 
the active members of that party. In politics, 
as in business affairs. Mr. Sprigg has the cour- 
age of his convictions and is positive and out- 
spoken in all things. In his profession he has 
been uniformly successful and is one of the 
prominent members of the Illinois bar. Mr. 
Sprigg was married June 27. 18S9, to Miss Annie 
C. Oilman, of Haverhill, Mass. Besides their 
beautiful and hospitable home on East Jersey 
street they have a model farm east of Quincy, 
which is the scene of most delightful entertain- 
ments. 



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WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON. 

The Hon. William A. Richardson is a worthy 
son of one of the distinguished men of Illinois. 
His father, the late Colonel William A. Richard- 
son, was for many years the associate of Lin- 
coln, Douglas and Browning and gained distinc- 
tion as a soldier and as a statesman. In both 
branches of the state legislature, in both 
branches of Congress and in the councils of the 
state and nation he wielded a commanding in- 
fluence. He came to Illinois from Kentucky in 
1831 and five years later was elected to the state 
legislature from Schuyler county. In 1838 he 
was chosen a member of the state senate and in 
1844, being once more a member of the genera! 
assembly, was elected speaker. The same year 
he was one of the presidential electors on the 
democratic ticket. When the Mexican war 
broke out, although just at the spring-tide of 
political preferment, he resolved to espouse the 
cause of his country on the field of strife. Rais- 
ing a company he at once went to the front and 
did noble service. On the field of Buena Vista 
he was promoted to the position of lieutenant 
colonel for gallant and heroic conduct. On his 
return home he was elected to congress to fill 
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of 
Judge Douglas, serving for ten years, a recog- 
nized leader of his party in that body. In 1856 
he was the democratic nominee for governor. 



being defeated by Governor Bissell by only 3,000 
votes. In 1857 he was appointed governor of 
Nebraska by President Buchanan. Returning 
to Quincy he was again elected to congress in 
1860, serving until 1863, when he was chosen 
United States senator to fill the vacancy occa- 
sioned by the death of Judge Douglas. For 
more than thirty years Colonel Richardson 
occupied a commanding position in shaping the 
affairs of the state and nation. He had few 
equals on the stump and few men had greater 
influence with the masses. His death, December 
27, 1875, was universally mourned. 

The Hon. William A. Richardson, Jr., was 
born in Washington June 24, 1848, while his 
father was in congress. After completing a 
comprehensive scientific education he accepted 
a position as engineer in the survey and con- 
struction of the railroad from Quincy to Louisi- 
ana. Later he was assistant engineer and resi- 
dent engineer in the construction of the Sni 
Levee, in this work establishing what were 
called the Richardson levels. He was also en- 
gaged in the survey and construction of the 
railway from Chillicothe to Omaha, now a part 
of the Port Arthur System; in the survey and 
construction of the Atchison branch of the Han- 
nibal & St. Joseph Railway, built by General 
Singleton, and also had an appointment as en- 
gineer on the Northern Pacific, which he 
resigned to return to Quincy. Here he read law 
with the Hon. 0. H. Browning, being admitted 
to the bar in 1876. In April of that year he was 
appointed master in chancery, serving nine 
years, was elected city attorney in 1878-9 and a 
member of the Illinois legislature in 1880. Prom 
1885 to 1891 he was United States commissioner, 
resigning the office owing to impaired health 
and engaging in extensive farming interests in 
Minnesota, retaining his residence in this city. 
He is a member of the board of directors of the 
public library and has always manifested a deep 
interest in all public affairs. January 3, 1881, 
Mr. Richardson was married to Miss Anna D. 
McFadon. 

FRANKLIN M. McCANN. 
Mr. Franklin M. McCann. one of the mpst 
prominent of the younger attorneys of Quincy, 
is a native of this county, having been born at 
Columbus. When he was a few months old his 
parents moved to Quincy, and this city has been 
his home ever since. His father, Wesley D. 
McCann, was one of the pioneers of Adams 
county, coming from Kentucky and settling at 
Columbus, which at that time gave promise of 
being quite a city. Quincy was at that time a 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND Hi )MEv^. 




small village, and seeing that it was destined 
to be the greater he moved here, and this city 
was his home until his death in 1S90. Wesley 
D. McCann was a strong character in every way, 
and while he was unostentatious in all his meth- 
ods he left his impress upon the community. 
He despised dishonorable methods in any direc- 
tion, was kind to the poor, whom he was contin- 
ually helping, loved his home and his family, 
and left them the rich inheritance of a good 
name. His widow, the mother of the subject of 
this sketch, still resides in the old family home- 
stead on East Maine street. Franklin McCann 
finished his literary education at Illinois Col- 
lege at Jacksonville, and graduated with high 
honors. He then studied law, and when twenty- 
four years of age was admitted to the bar and 
commenced the practice of his profession. He 
has devoted himself wholly to it, and has built 
up a lucrative practice. He has kept aloof from 
politics, and has never been a candidate for any 
office, although he has been often urged to per- 
mit the use of his name. His success has been 
attained through his own individual efforts, 
unaided by politics or otherwise, and his splen- 
did practice and high standing at the bar offer 
the greatest inspiration to young men just 
entering upon the most arduous of professions. 
Mr. McCann was married in 1893 to Miss Luella 
Adams at Topeka, Kan., and they have one 
child, an infant daughter, Edith Adams McCann. 



GEORGE H. WILSON. 

Mr. George H. Wilson, state's attorney for 
.\dams county and a member of the law firm of 
Wilson & Wall, is a son of the Rev. H. Wilson, 
member of the Illinois conference of the M. E. 
church, and was born at Barry, 111., November 7, 
1866. He graduated from the Pittsfield High 
School in 1883 and from Illinois College in 1888, 
securing the highest honors of his class, the 
valedictory and receiving the degree of A. B. In 
1891 he received the degree of A. M. from the 
same institution. In 1888-9 he held the position 
of assistant principal of the Carrollton, 111., 
schools under Uavid Felraley, now professor of 
mathematics in the State Normal University. 
Deciding to adopt the legal profession Mr. Wil- 
son attended Union College of Law and studied 
under Mr. James F. Carrott, being admitted to 
the bar in June, 1891. In 1896 he was elected 
state's attorney for Adams county on the repub- 
lican ticket. A successful attorney and a safe 
adviser, he has already attained prominence In 
his profession and his administration of the im- 
portant and responsible office which he holds 
is giving very general satisfaction. Mr. Wilson 
is secretary of the Illinois State's Attorneys' 
Association, a member and the secretary of the 
board of directors of the Anna Brown Home for 
the Aged and a trustee of Illinois College. He 
was married June 14, 1894, to Miss Frances W. 
Hall, of Jacksonville, 111. 




REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND'HOMES. 




JUDGE B. F. BERRIAN. 

While ex-Governor Wood is the founder of 
Quinry, to the late George W. Berrian, father 
of Judge B. P. Berrian, belongs the distinction 
of discovering the site of the Gem City. In the 
spring of 1818 Mr. Berrian, with his uncle, Rich- 
ard Berrian, started from New York in a cov- 
ered buggy to visit that section of western Illi- 
nois known as the Military Tract. Their trip 
wa.5 a long and eventful one, much of the west 
still being in possession of the Indians and the 
white settlements being hundreds of miles apart. 
In June. 1819, accompanied by a man named 
Jacobs, who had lived for some time within the 
present boundaries of Adams county, they 
visited the bluffs where Quincy is now located. 
Old poles, lemnants of wigwams or teppees, 
were still numerous, but the visitors were satis- 
fied at that early day that this would be the site 
of an important city. Sometime after leaving 
this locality, near Atlas, the Berrians met John 
Wood and ever after these early pioneers were 
warm personal friends. Judge Berrian still has 
in his possession letters written by his father 
from Edwardsville in 1819. 

Judge Berrian was born in New York City 
October 2, 1830. With his fathers family he 
left New York on the last day of April, 1844, to 
come west. They went by boat to Perth Amboy, 
N. Y., then by cars to Harrisburg, via Philadel- 



phia, where they took a passenger boat on the 
canal to Hollidaysburg. The mountains were 
crossed by train on five inclined planes, the cars 
being hauled up and lowered by wire cables 
operated by powerful engines. From Johns- 
town, on this side of the mountains, the journey 
was made by canal to Pittsburg, thence by 
steamboat to St. Louis and Quincy, where the 
party arrived on the morning of May 20. A 
long, roundabout and tiresome journey fifty 
years ago, now made in comfort in a single day. 
In the development of Quincy Judge Berrian has 
been a prominent and important factor. He 
was one of the first alderman to represent the 
Fourth Ward, elected in 1857 and re-elected in 
1859. In 1869 he was elected Mayor and under 
his administration the city resumed cash pay- 
ments. Previous to that time the resources of 
the city had become so reduced that all pay- 
ments had been made in vouchers which were 
at a discount of 40 per cent, but he determined 
to restore the credit of the city and by reason 
of his careful and successful financial manage- 
ment cash payments were resumed. In 187C he 
was elected county judge and held that impor- 
tant office for seventeen years. During his long 
term of service on the bench the affairs of the 
court were administered with even handed and 
impartial justice and Judge Berrian is univer- 
sally regarded as one of the most honored offi- 
cials of the city and county. 

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ALBERT AKERS. 

Mr. Albert Akers. the subject of this sketch, 
is a sturdy type of the self-made man, and all 
he has was obtained by hard work and self- 
denial. He is a prominent member of the 
Quincy bar, but to gain that position he had to 
overcome obstacles which would have over- 
whelmed a less determined nature. He was 
born on a farm in Columbus township, Adams 
county, Illinois, September 26, 1849, and 
remained there until he reached his majority. 
He was the eighth child of a large family, and 
as his parents were very poor and school facili- 
ties in that neighborhood meagre, his early 
opportunities for securing an education were 
limited. Up to the age of twelve he attended 
the district school about three months in the 
year, working on the farm the rest of the time. 
When the civil war broke out and President 
Lincoln called for troops. Mr. Akers' four older 
brothers responded to the call of patriotic duty 
and enlisted in the Union army. His father had 
died before that time, and when his older broth- 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




PIS marched away to battle for the country's 
salvation young Akers was compelled to aban- 
don school altogether, take charge of the farm 
and assist in supporting his widowed mother 
and some younger children. That was a heavy 
burden for a lad of twelve, but he faced it man- 
fully, and while he smiles over it now the hard- 
ships which he endured at that time were such 
as not to be envied by any boy. He continued 
as a farm laborer until he was twenty-two years 
old. when he entered school at Camp Point. He 
studied there for seven months, when he was 
granted a license to teach, and by teaching in 
winter and attending normal schools in sum- 
mer he acquired a fair education. 

He was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 187(5 
to Ida May Silver. Four children were born to 
them, three of whom are living. In 187S he 
entered the office of Carter & Govert. where he 
studied law for a year, and then went to Shelby- 
ville, Ind., where he completed his law studies 
and was admitted to the bar. entering upon the 
practice of his chosen profession in ISSO. He 
practiced law in Shelbyville for eight years, and 
during the latter part of his residence there was 
editor and part owner of the Shelbyville Times. 
He also served in the Shelbyville council as an 
alderman. 

He returned to Quincy in ISSS, and has built 
up a lucrative practice here, being now a mem- 
ber of the firm of Akers & Swope. He was 
elected state's attorney in 1892, in which posi- 



tion he served until 1896. Among the impor- 
tant cases which he prosecuted were those of the 
Kingston white cappers and George Coward, 
who was sent to the penitentiary for life for 
murder. He was elected an alderman from the 
Sixth ward in 1897, and was one of the infiuen- 
lial members of the city council. 

JOHN T. INGHRAM. 

Of the younger members of the Quincy bar 
none hold a more prominent position than Mr. 
.John T. Inghram. He has applied himself 
strictly to his profession and has established a 
practice which is highly creditable to his energy 
and aljility. A close student of the law and of 
a judicial turn of mind, his uniform success 
demonstrates the fact that he is a wise coun- 
selor as well as an attorney of more than ordi- 
nary ability. Mr. Inghram was born in this 
city .July 11. 1870. After graduating from the 
Quincy High School he took the law course at 
the IVlichigan University at Ann Arbor. In 1891 
he commenced the practice of his profession 
iiere under the present firm name of Inghram & 
Crewdson. He was married in 1898 to Miss 
Lillian C. Brown, one of Quincy's most brilliant 
musical artists. Mr. Inghram is prominent in 
Masonic circles, being eminent commander of 
Beauseaut Commandery. Knights Templar, and 
Iiast high priest of Quincy Chapter, Royal Arch 
Masons. 




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HON. HOPE S. DAVIS. 

The Hon. Hope S. Davis is the oldest member 
of the Qiiincy bar in term of service, having 
commenced active practice here nearly fifty 
years ago. His ancestors were prominent in the 
affairs of Massachusetts and New York and par- 
ticipated in the revolutionary war and the war 
of 1812. Mr. Davis was born on a farm near 
Rochester, N. Y., and attended the Brookport 
and Lima seminaries, receiving a broad and 
comprehensive education. When sixteen years 
of age he commenced teaching during the win- 
ter in a district school and continued this occu- 
pation for five winters. Deciding to enter the 
legal profession, on March 2.5, 1850, he went into 
the law office of Bowne & Benedict, prominent 
attorneys of Rochester, also attending the Bol- 
ston Law School two full terms and two years 
later was admitted to practice in New York, 
passing a highly creditable examination before 
.Judges Strong, Harris and Gardner. November 
11, 1852, he opened an office in this city. In 
those days Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Doug- 
las and other eminent attorneys of the earlier 
days were practicing before the Quincy courts. 
In 185G Mr. Davis was appointed superintendent 
of the Quincy schools, which important office 
he held for six years. During his term of ser- 
vice he secured the passage of a special act of 
the legislature creating the board of education 
and establishing the first high school under a 
graded system. In 1858 he formed a law part- 
nership with .ludge Philo A. Goodwin, which 
continued until Judge Goodwin's death, seven- 
teen years later. In 1862 Mr. Davis was elected 
county superintendent of schools and in 1863 



was elected a member of the city council. In 
1876 he was chosen a member of the state legis- 
lature and was the author of the voluntary 
assignment law and other important legislation. 
Few men in the community have performed 
greater service for the general public than has 
Mr. Davis. He is still engaged in law practice, 
an honored member of the Quincy bar. Mr. 
Davis was married .January 16, 1855, to Miss 
Persis C. Root, daughter of Edwin C. Root, of 
Monroe county. New York. His wife died July 
15, 1886, leaving five daughters and three sons. 
Lottie B., Celia E., Persis C, Mary B., Irena G., 
Hope S.. Jr., Philo G. and Waite H. On May 21, 
1895, Mr. Davis was married to Miss Melissa J. 
Ward, of this city. 

CHARLES M. HOLT. 

M'-. Charles M. Holt, the well-known collec- 
tion attorney, was born at Wllliam'itown, Mo., 
in 1860. His father, the venerable Rev. J. M. 
Holt, preached in northeast Missouri for forty- 
five years and is one of the most widely known 
Baptist clergymen in the state. Of late years he 
has given up active work and is now a resident 
of this city. The son, desiring a professional 
life, attended La Grange College and afterwards 
graduated from the law department of the Mis- 
souri State University and was admitted to 
practice, opening an office at Edina. In 1889 he 
came to Quincy and established his present col- 
lection agency, which has proven eminently suc- 
cessful. 




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JOSEPH L. SHERIDAN. 



CIKCUIT CLKRK. 



With some men success has come from adver- 
sity, and this is certainly the experience of Mr. 
Joseph L. Sheridan, clerk of the circuit court. 
Though still a young man his experience would 
fill a book. He was born on a farm in Pembroke 
township, Kankakee county, Illinois, September 
27, 1SC2, in one of the original log cabins, his 
father, Daniel Sheridan, being one of the early 
settlers of the state. The youngest of ten chil- 



at the molders' trade in Detroit, he was thrown 
out of work, but obtained a position in the fire 
department at Grand Haven, Mich., as driver of 
a hose cart, which he held for two years. De- 
ciding to complete his trade as a stove molder, 
he obtained a place in the Chicago Stove Works, 
where he served the balance of his time, joined 
the union and before he was twenty-one years of 
age was making five dollars per day. In the 




dren, his mother moved to Detroit when he was 
a baby. There he attended the puDlie schools 
until he was eleven years of age, having passed 
the examinations for the senior class. Being 
obliged to assist in the support of the family, 
he worked in a grocery store for two years, 
receiving six dollars per month. He was will- 
ing to do whatever was presented and when 
thirteen, better wages being offered, accepted a 
position as assistant cook on a lake vessel. At 
the end of the navigation season he returned to 
Detroit and during the winter was cook for a 
camp of twenty men in the pineries back of Bay 
City. The next spring found him back on the 
old homestead, in Kankakee township, where he 
put in a crop and the following fail he picked 
cotton in Arkansas. After working two years 



fall of 1SS3 he came to Quincy, a change which 
ended his adversity and which has proven of the 
highest advantage. Here he found steady em- 
ployment and soon made his influence felt. A 
natural leader, quiet, courteous and sincere, he 
has held every office in the local iron molders' 
union but that of financial secretary. In the 
spring of 1S96 he was elected alderman on the 
republican ticket from the Fourth Ward. At 
the third meeting of the city council following 
his inauguration he was elected city clerk pro 
tem. to succeed George Smith. The council was 
democratic, but there were no votes against him. 
In the fall of 189C he was elected circuit clerk by 
a majority of over 700. He has filled every 
position which he has held with credit to him- 
self and in his present responsible office is mak- 
ing an enviable record. 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




JOHN W. ROTH. 

SHKKIFF. 

John W. Roth, sheriff of Adams county, was 
born in Camp Point, September 23, 1858. He is 
a son of the late John A. Roth, one of the early 
settlers of Quincy, his father locating here in 
the early '30's. Mr. Roth, Sr., was a cabinet 
maker and for some time was interested in lb? 
furniture business, the firm being Shell & Roth. 
He was one of the first to cross the plains dur- 
ing the first gold excitement in 1849. After 
remaining in California three years he returned 
to Quincy, but a little later made a second trip 
to the far west. On his return here the North- 
ern Cross Railroad was projected and in 1856 he 
went to Camp Point, where he bought property 
ard established himself in business. His wife 
was a highly cultured lady, being thoroughly 
familiar with the French, German and English 
languages. After acquiring a good common 
school education, Mr. John W. Roth worked for 
a time in his father's store, but concluded to try 
railroading and tor a time was employed in the 
Wabash and Union Pacific train service. In 
1884 he bought out a general store at Kingston, 
v'hich he conducted successfully for six years. 
He was appointed deputy sheriff while engaged 
in business there and held that position contin- 
uously until he was elected sheriff in 1898. His 
training gives him special qualifications for this 
office, and added to his thorough familiarity 



with its duties, he possesses the highest degree 
of courage and determination. Under his ad- 
ministration the sheriff's office is in most e.xcel- 
lent hands. 

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JAMES McKINNAY. 

The present treasurer of Adams county was 
born in Lima township, June 1, 1867. He at- 
tendjd the Camp Point High School, Chaddock 
College and the Gem City Business College. 
His schooling was supplemented by teaching, 
three terms in this county, two in Hancock 
county and writing school two terms. In this 
vay he earned money to complete his own 
excellent and comprehensive education. He 
was stenograi her for Lummis, Earhart & Co. 
lor a time and then represented the Evening 
Herald on the road for two years, after which 
he was bookkeeper for D. N. Wisherd. In 1895 
he was appointed deputy county treasurer, to be 
elected county treasurer at the last election. 
That so young a man should become so promi- 
nent is unusual, but Mr. McKinnay combines 
the elements of popularity. He is genial and 
affable, has a wide acquaintance throughout the 
county and was enabled to secure the nomina- 
tion for one of the most lucrative and responsi- 
ble offices in the county. He has reason to feel 
proud of his splendid success. 




REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




JACKSON R. PEARCE, 

CorXTV CLICKK. 

Mr. Jackson R. Pearce, the present county 
clerk of Adams county, was born in Houston 
township, October 28, 1862. His father, 
Augustus F. Pearce. one of the most substantial 
farmers of the county, came here from Ken- 
tucky in 18.51 and his mother, nee Mary E. 
Woods, is a native of Illinois. The son worked 
on the home farm until he was eighteen, receiv- 
ing an excellent common school education. He 
then taught school two years and in 1882 
engaged in the general merchandise, grain and 
implement business at Chatten. On October 23, 
1890, he accepted a position in the county clerk's 
office, being appointed deputy the following 
December. This position he held until he was 
elected county clerk last fall. Mr. Pearce re- 
ceived his training under Mr. Willis Haselwood 
and is a worthy successor of that substantial 
and popular official. He is thoroughly familiar 
with every detail of this important and respon- 
sible office and his uniform courtesy and sterl- 
ing qualities have gained for him the confidence 
of the people of the county generally. Mr. 
Pearce was married September 15, 1884, to Miss 
Elizabeth McGinnis and they have two daugh- 
ters and one son. 



PROF. ALBERT R. SMITH, 

cocNTV st*I'I-:kinti:ndi-:.n r of schools. 

Like very many of the best and most success- 
ful teachers. Prof. Albert R. Smith, county 
superintendent of schools, was raised on a farm. 
He was born in Ohio. June 22, 1855, in his earlier 
years attending the district school in winter 
and filling a man's place about the farm. The 
outdoor life gave him his fine physique and 
robust health, his independent ideas of reason- 
ing and his close observation. As a boy he was 
a student and his mind was seldom idle. When 
the opportunity was presented he took a course 
at a normal and at Duff's College. By reason 
of active and successful school work he received 
a five-years professional certificate for teaching. 
Prof. Smith came to Adams county in 1891 and 
took charge of the La Prairie school. Under 
his teaching this school stood higher in grade 
for three years than any other school in the 
county. He was teaching at Golden in 1896 
when elected to his present responsible position. 
Superintendent Smith has thoroughly modern 
ideas regarding educational work and has the 
faculty of imparting his enthusiasm to his 
teachers. He is a man of few words, quiet and 
reserved and is doing excellent service for the 
schools of Adams county. 




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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




CAPTAIN WILLIAM K. HASELWOOD. 

CORONER. 

Captain William K. Haselwood. coroner of 
Adams county, was born at Williamstown, Ky., 
February 10, 1S40. He comes of old English 
stock, his ancestors settling at Petersburg. Va., 
at an early date. There his grandfather was 
born, but went to Kentucky with his parents in 
boyhood. The captain worked at farming and 
stock raising as a boy and in 1S57 came to 
Quincy and secured employment as a farm 
laborer. When the war broke out he enlisted in 
the Fiftieth Illinois Infantry, the famous 
"Blind Half Hundred," and was elected second 
lieutenant of Company D. He was afterwards 
promoted to first lieutenant and captain. His 
command was in many of the notable battles of 
the war— Fort Henry, Donaldson, Shiloh, 
Corinth and with Sherman to the sea. At the 
close of the war he returned to Quincy and en- 
gaged in farming in Fall Creek and Payson 
townships until 1873, when he went on the road 
as general collecting agent for the Howe Sew- 
ing Machine Company. Three years later he 
returned to farming in northeast Missouri and 
in Kansas and was engaged in railroading in 
Mexico for a short time. In 1882 he was in tli.' 
contracting business in Dakota and was then 
elected justice of the peace. Once more return- 
ing to Quincy he was on the police force for 
three years and a halt and health officer for four 



years and a half. In 1896 he was elected cor- 
oner on the republilan ticket by a handsome 
majority. Captain Haselwood was married 
August 19, 1860, to Miss Martha A. Seehorn, 
daughter of the Hon. Eli Seehorn, and they have 
one daughter and one son, Mrs. Anna M. Law- 
rence, of this city, and Thomas W. Haselwood, 
a prosperous farmer of Melrose. 

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ROLLA E. McNEALL. 

RliCOKDER. 

Mr. Rolla E. McNeall, county recorder, was 
born in Columbus, Adams county, September 9, 
1861. He is a son of the late Dr. Nathan Mc- 
Neall, one of the early residents of the county. 
After receiving a thorough common school edu- 
cation he attended Chaddock College and then 
taught school for seven years. In 1889 he was 
appointed postmaster at Columbus by President 
Harrison and then engaged in the mercantile 
business. For four years he was a member of 
the board of supervisors from Columbus town- 
ship, resigning from the board to accept the 
office of county recorder, to which he was 
elected in 1896 on the republican ticket by a 
handsome majority. He had become one of the 
prominent merchants of the eastern part of the 
county, closing out his business to reside in this 
city when he was elected to his present impor- 
tant office. That Mr. McNeall is universally 
popular is evidenced by his uniform success in 
politics. Nominations have come to him and in 
every instance election has followeL 




OFFICERS OF THE CITY OF QUINCY. 



JOHN A. STEINBACH. 



MAYOR OF 

Mr. John A. Steinbach, the present mayor of 
Quincy, was born in Bethel, Mo., January 28, 
1847. He comes of German ancestry, his grand- 
father, Adam Steinbach, having been a soldier 
under Napoleon; he was one of three out of his 
company of 300 who returned from the terrible 
expedition to Moscow. His father, John A., 
was one of the early residents of Quincy and 
died here in 1854. Mayor Steinbach came to 
this city with his parents in 1848. He was given 
a fair common school education and at thirteen 
years of age commenced learning the bricklay- 
ers' trade. When the war broke out he was one 
of the first to offer his services, but on account 
of his age, fourteen years, he was rejected by 
the recruiting officers. . In 1865, however, he 
enlisted in Company D, 148th Illinois Volunteer 
Infantry and was soon elected first lieutenant of 
the company. On his return from the war he 
resumed work at his trade and in 1871 engaged 
in the brick contracting business with his step- 
father. From boyhood he had always taken an 
active interest in the fire department, holding 
various positions, and in 1875 he was appointed 
chief engineer, holding this important office 
until 1885, when he declined reappointment. 
Under his management the department was 
brought up to the highest state of efficiency. 
New steam engines were purchased, the swing- 
ing harness introduced and improved devices, 
for saving time and for fighting fire adopted. 
Quincy has never had a better or more efficient 
fire chief. In 1885 he resumed the brick con- 
tracting business with his brother, Phillip, and 
the firm of Steinbach Brothers, still in active 
business, stands at the head of their line of eon- 
tract work in this entire section. They have 
done the brick work on nearly every important 
public building, business block and fine resi- 
dence erected here in recent years and have also 
built many notable buildings in neighlioring 
cities in this state, Iowa and Missouri. In 1895 
Mr. Steinbach was elected mayor and has 
twice been re-elected to that important office. 
Since he has been chief executive the bonded 
indebtedness of the city has been reduced nearly 
$250,000 and the credit of the city has been 
advanced until refunding bonds have been 



floated at 4 per cent interest. Over twelve miles 
of brick and novaculite paving have been put 
down and the sewerage system has been largely 
extended. Many questions of tar-reaching im- 
portance have been presented and settled, 
including the reorganization of the city govern- 
ment under the general law, the questions 
affecting the rebuilding of the C, B. & Q. Rail- 
way terminals here, the introduction of steam 




heating and the extension of the water works 
and street railway systems. A new fire depart- 
ment district has been organized in the north- 
ern part of the city and a spacious and thor- 
oughly modern engine house built. A new 
engine house has also been recently completed 
in the southern part of the city. Personally, 
Mayor Steinbach is genial and affable, frank 
and open-handed. He is a man of positive 
opinions and is frank in expressing them. His 
opponents are never in doubt as to where he 
stands. 



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REPRESENTATIVK MEN AND HOMES. 




FRANK SONNET. 



any TKiiA'^i rj k. 



HORACE J. FARRAR. 

Mr. Horace J. Farrar, the present city clerk, 
was born at Portage, Wis., February 23, 1862, 
and is a son of the late Isaac N. Farrar. Com- 
ing to Quincy with his parents in 1870, at the 
age of ten, he commenced learning the tinners' 
trade with G. J. Cottrell and then worked at his 
trade for three years at Payson. For three 
years he was engaged in the hardware business 
at WUliamstown, Mo., but sold his store and 
returned to this city. In 1884 he was appointed 
a letter carrier, holding this position until 1889, 
when he traveled for a time for Reidinger & 
Oertel. In 1890 he was appointed special tax 
collector, but resigned that office to accept the 
position of bookkeeper and cashier at the 
Quin-y Paper Mills. In May, 1896, he was ap- 
pointed city clerk to fill an unexpired term, was 
elected to the same office in 1897 and re-elected 
for two years this spring. A rapid and correct 
accountant, he is thoroughly qualified for the 
duties of his office. Mr. Farrar has taken an 
active and prominent part in democratic poli- 
tics, having held the position of secretary of 
both the city and county central committees. 
He was married April 5, 1883, to Miss Alice 
Shallenberger, of WUliamstown, Mo., and they 
have two daughters. 



Mr. Frank Sonnet, who was elected to the 
responsible office of city treasurer and town col- 
lector last spring, has been a resident of Quincy 
for thirty years. Born in the beautiful Rhine 
Valley, Germany, January 24, 1848, he came to 
America and located in Quincy May 9, 1869, 
selecting for his home in his adopted country 
this attractive city in the Central Mississippi 
Valley. For a time the young man worked for 
Brown Brothers as shipping clerk and. then 
learned the bakers' trade. In 1873 he formed a 
partnership with Joseph Thuer in the bakery 
business, the firm being continued for four 
years, when Mr. Sonnet engaged in the same line 
of business on Maine street. In 1SS6 he sold out 
and the restaurant firm of Sonnet & Cunane was 
formed, Mr. Sonnet disposing of his interest 
seven years later. In 189.5 he was appointed 
special tax collector and filled the position so 
well that he was continued in that office for 
four years, being elected city treasurer and ex- 
officio town collector at the last election. Mr. 
Sonnet is a trustee of the Fireman's Benevolent 
Association and of St. Aloysius Orphan Society; 
vice president of St. Nicholas branch, W. C. U., 
and a director of Graceland Cemetery Associa- 
tion. He was married June 4, 1875, to Miss 
Christina Mast, of this city. 




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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




ALFRED A. SEEHORN. 

sri'i:RiNTKNDi-:XT or scHoor,s. 

Mr. Alfred A. Seehorn. superintendent of the 
piiblic schools cf Quinoy, was born on a farm in 
Fall Creek township. October 1. 1860. His 
iatlicr, Mr. .Alfred Seehorn, came to this county 
fi'oni Tennessee in 1832. One of the early pion- 
eers, he was actively identified with the devel- 
opment of tlie county and has lived to enjoy the 
advanta.Ets of an honest, industrious life. As 
member of the board of supervisors and chair- 
man of that body and in other positions of re- 
sponsibility, he has made himself widely known 
and universally honored and respected. Super- 
intendent Seehorn was brought up on the farm, 
attending the district school. Developing an 
aptitude for a broader education, he attended 
the Payson High School and Chaddock College. 
He then gave his attention to teaching, serving 
one year in Hancock county, nine years in Fall 
Creek and two years at Plainville. In 1894 he 
was elected county superintendent of schools. 
His experience in the active work of teaching 
was of the highest advantage to him in this 
position and enabled him to inaugurate changes 
and reforms of first importance. He resigned 
his office in the fall of 1897 to accept the posi- 
tion of superintendent of the public schools of 
Quincy, which he still holds. 



HENRY STEINKAMP. 

Mr. Henry Steinkamp was born at Colsfeld, 
Westphalia, in 1837, and came to this country 
when he was twenty-one years of age, locating 
in Quincy. After working at his trade of har- 
ness maker for a time he engaged in the har- 
ness making business on State street in 18fi2 and 
has continued his store and factory for nearly 
forty years, his being one of the oldest business 
houses in the city. In 1870 he was appointee 
assistant chief engineer of the fire department, 
serving for two years; in 1872 he was elected 
city marshal; in 1875, city collector, and in 1878 
town collector. In 1880 Mr. Steinkamp was 
elected to the important and responsible posi- 
tion of assessor, which position he still holds, 
his term of office covering nearly twenty years. 
His thorough knowledge of property values, his 
unfailing judgment and his unquestioned hon- 
esty have made him a most competent official 
and so highly is his work regarded by his fel- 
low citizens that he has many times been re- 
elected without opposition. Mr. Steinkamp is 
public-spirited and progressive and has been 
identified with a number of important public 
enterprises. He has a very wide acquaintance 
throughout this section of the state, as well as 
in Quincy, and is universally popular with the 
people. 




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REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




CAPTAIN JOHN AHERN. 

CnilCF UP POLICi:. 

John Ahein, the efficient chief of police oH 
Quincy, was born in this city, and has won dis- 
tinction in two different branches of life. He 
first worked for Battell & Collins, in what is 
now the Collins Plow Works, and was with 
them for seven years. He was always an ath- 
lete, and when a young man started out with 
the W. W. Cole circus as an acrobat. That same 
season the acrobatic team which became famous 
all over the country as the Ahern brothers, was 
organized. It was composed of .John Ahern, Os 
Finkel and Billy Van Steenberg, and they were 
the wonder of all who witnessed their daring 
and difficult feats. Captain Ahern was the star 
of the trio, and originated much of the difficult 
work on the bars. They traveled three seasons 
with George Mankin's circus, doing ground and 
lofty tumbling and work on the horizontal bars. 
While doing a double somersault from the bars 
in a performance at Stockbridge, Mich., Finkel 
was killed, and that tragedy broke up the team. 
He then traveled with Billy Miltimore in John 
B. Doris' circus, doing a wonderful act in the 
flying trapeze from a pedestal, and also feats on 
the horizontal bars with Harry Yokes, Eddy 
Rice and Billy O'Brien. Captain Ahern tired of 
circus life after several years on the road, and 
returning to Quincy accepted a position in the 
wholesale grocery house of Tripp & Tapp. He 
was then employed by the gas company for one 
year, and in 1888 entered upon his successful 
service in the police department as a night 



patrolman. He served in that position hut a 
short time, when he was made a day patrolman. 
Then he became a detective, and October 24, 
1890, was appointed chief of the department, a 
responsible position which he has filled with rare 
ability. He was married Feb. 1, 1881, to Miss 
Eva C. Stephens, of this city, and they have four 
children, three boys and one girl. 

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WILLIAM A. McCONNELL. 

Sl'l'ERINTeNl>p:NT HOUSE OF CORRECTION. 

The work of Mr. William A. McConnell as 
superintendent of the Quincy House of Correc- 
tion, certainly entitles him to prominent rank 
among the managers of penal and reformatory 
institutions. He has had to deal with thousands 
of criminals and law-breakers, many of them 
desperate men, but he has maintained perfect 
discipline at all times and has enforced the reg- 
ulations of the institution to the letter. His 
methods are along the most advanced lines of 
reformatory work and he is fully competent to 
manage any of the larger prisons or reforma- 
tory institutions. While the majority of his 
prisoners are at work during the day and are 
at all times given the greatest degree of liberty 
consistent with safety, it is proverbial of him 
that none of them ever escape. Mr. McConnell 
was born in New Jersey and came to Quincy 
with his parents in 1861. He was engaged in 
contracting for some time and on April 5. 1883, 
was appointed to his present position by Mayor 
Deaderick, holding the office continuously ever 
since. 




REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND HOMES. 




GEORGE J. SCHLAG. 

CHIKF ICNC.INEEK OF THF FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

Mr. George J. Schlag, chief engineer of the fire 
depanment, was born in this city March 8, 1858. 
He is a son of the late Mr. John Schlag, who 
came here in 1835, one of the pioneer residents 
of Quincy. His father died when he was a boy 
and after receiving a fair common school edu- 
cation, George was oliliged to make his own 
way in the world. When quite young he went 
to work in the tobacco factory of Goodman & 
Turner, on Fifth and .lersey streets, and contin- 
ued with them after the organization of the 
Gem City Tobacco Works. He was then for four 
years in the grocery store of Ording & Glass, on 
Twelfth and Maine streets. His first work in 
the fire department was as rainuteman at the 
No. 1 engine house, in December, 1885. The fol- 
lowing spring he was appointed roundsman. 
After five years' work in the department he was 
appointed chief engineer. May 6, 1891, a posi- 
tion which he has held ever since, with the 
exception of one year, when he was displaced 
for political reasons. Chief Schlag is a typical 
fireman. His splendid physique and great 
strength enable him to endure any amount of 
hard work and exposure. A remarkable degree 
of peisonal courage is intelligently directed, 
inspiring his men to greatest efforts. Since he 
has been chief two large new engine houses 
have been built, all of the old engine houses 
have been rebuilt and thoroughly modernized 
and the entire department has been maintained 
to the highest degree of efficiency 



ALDERMAN THOMAS J. MANNING. 

Alderman Thomas .1. Manning, member of the 
board of local improvements and superintendent 
of sewers, is a native of Maine, borne at Lewis- 
town, March 1, 185fi. He had the advantages of 
a fair common school education, but was early 
thrown on his own resources and found work in 
the cotton mills. While still a young man he 
learned the trade of silver plating and in 1872 
decided to come west, working at his trade three 
years in Milwaukee and then going to St. Paul. 
In 1877 he located in Quincy and soon after 
established his present silver plating works. He 
is one of the first members of the board of local 
improvements and his work in this important 
organization has been highly creditable. Last 
spring he was elected alderman of the Second 
ward by a substantial majority. Mr. Manning 
served as trustee of the Supreme Council of the 
Western Catholic Union two terms and now 
holds the responsible office of supreme presi- 
dent, to which he was first elected at Spring- 
field in October, 1895. He has held this office 
for four terms and so well has he discharged the 
duties of chief executive that he was re-elected 
at the convention at .Toliet last year by accla- 
mation. During his presidency the membership 
of the union has been increased largely and the 
affairs of the organization are in a most pros- 
perous condition. 




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KKSIUENCK -V>'JJ UK'OUXU.S OJ' CHARLES HENKV liULL. 



INDEX-BIOGRAPMIGAL. 



Pasre. 

Adams. James E 32 

Ahern. John ]32 

Akers, Albert A 122 

Anderson. Wick SI 

Arthur, William H 57 

Baldwin, Thomas S 90 

Bartlett. L. B 54 

Bartlett. S. P fiS 

Bastert, J. Henry S3 

Batschy, John 82 

Benton, Joel 92 

Berrian. B. P 122 

Bert. John L GO 

Binkert, Antone 41 

Blank. Charles A...s G6 

Blasland. Captain Harry D 110 

Boswell. Lewis B 5ri 

Botsford. Edmund M Sfi 

Bradford, Edwin Freeman 29 

Breit wieser, Charles W 91 

Broady, Judge John C 114 

Bull, Charles H 14 

Bull, Lorenzo 7 

Carley, Charles E 21 

Carter, Judge Joseph N 113 

Cas.sidy, J. W 4S 

Castle, Adjutant Alfred L 112 

Castle, Chauncey H 15 

Center, Dr. Charles D ; 1U7 

Chatten. Enoch R 69 

Chatten. Harvey SO 

Christie, Dr. Robert J., Jr 98 

Clark, James H 37 

Clark, Thomas J 94 

Corrigan, James B 95 

Cottrell, Gorham J 19 

Daugherty, Jacob P Sn 

Davis, Hope S 124 

Dazey, Charles T .38 

Dickson, James 77 

Doerr, Andrew 63 

Duker, William T 64 

Eber, William 79 

Emery, Joseph W 35 

Emery, Samuel H.. Jr 27 

Emmons. L. E.. Sr US 

Epler, Judge Carl E 114 

Ertel, George 65 

Farrar, Horace J 13ii 

Flack, William S 59 

Flynn, John J 85 

Gardner, Dr. Robert A lO.-i 

Gardner, Robert W 10 

Gardner, Dr. Thom.as D 109 

Gordon, O. B 60 

Govert. Willi.im FI Il"" 



Page. 

Halbach. Frederick W 55 

Hamilton, General E. B 116 

Hart, Dr. Henry ]05 

Haselwood, William K 12S 

Hatch, Dr. Henry mi 

Heidbreder, J. Herman 44 

Heintz, Nichias 72 

Holt, Charles M 124 

Inghram. John T 123 

Irwin, T^eaton 70 

Johnston, Dr. Otis y„; 

Jones, Gerald P 5J 

Justice, Dr. J. D !!'"!!. ^Jiifi 

Kendall. William R 75 

Kesiiohl, Julius 5,, 

Knapheide. Dr. William S ...m 

Kohl, Niklaus g^ 

Konantz. William H 7; 

Lewis, John M jj 

Lonsdale, Herbert L ''"' 93 

Lummis. H. F ^j 

Mc.'Vfee. Dickerson 3] 

IVIcAdams. John ^^^ (jj, 

MoCann, Franklin M ^120 

McClellan. Lieutenant John F ni 

McConnell, William A ..!!j32 

McKenna. Lleweylyn B 7.1; 

McKiiinay, James ]2g 

McMein. William H ,[ 51 

McNcall. Rolla B ]2S 

MacMurray, James E $2 

Maiming, Thomas J 133 

Menke. Frederick W 26 

.Menke, Henry B c,K 

Menke. Joseph B 72 

Miller, Bernard H 57 

Moecker. Herman 9] 

Mollcr. Henry H 7] 

Montgomery, Dr. E. B 103 

Moore. William L 93 

Morgan. Joseph L 30 

Myers. Clarence A s4 

Myers, John W S4 

Nauman, Dr. H. F ]flfl 

Newromb. Richard F ;2 

Nichols. Dr. F. E 107 

Nickerson. Dr L. H. A 101 

Oohlman. Charles .S2 

Osborn. Charles C 4S 

Osborn, R. H 62 

Osborn, Frank W 80 

Parker. Edward J 23 

Farkhurst. George C 49 

Parkhurst. Jonathan .39 

Pearce. Jackson R 127 

Poling, Theodore C 43 

Pope, Thomas 20 



INDRX— BIOGRAPHICAL— CONTINUED. 



Reetl, Jiihn W 




Pag-e. 
44 


Hice. Dr. J. H 




100 


Richarrlson. William 
Ricker. George K 


A 


120 

28 



Ricker, Henry F. J 17 

Robbins, Dr. Joseph 97 

Roth, John W 126 

Schaef er, Loui.s P 74 

Schlas, George J 13.1 

Schlagenhauf, William 115 

Schmidt, Dr. Albert 1U4 

Schmitt. L. M 89 

Seehorn, Alfred A 131 

Sellner, Albert 94 

Shawgo. Dr. J. B 104 

Sheridan, Joseph L 12.5 

ShoU. Alexander 3G 

Smith, Albert R 127 

Slusher, J. S 02 

Soebblng, John L 74 

Sohm, Edward 45 

Somerville. William .33 

Sommer. Aldo 13 

Sonnet. Frank 130 

Sprigg, James N 119 

Spry, Walter 70 

Stahl, George H 54 

Steinbach, John A 1211 

Steinkamp, Henry 131 

Steinwedell. William 67 

Stern, Charles 53 

Stern. David 53 

Swimmer. Plarris 7S 



Page. 

Taylor, Fred P 78 

Tellbuescher, J. Fred S5 

Tenk. J. H 61 

Tenk, Rudolph 56 

Thuman, Frederick 86 

Travilla. Marshall 85 

Trowbridge. Edward W 81 

Tnlibesing, Frank 86 



rpham, Willard P 

VandenBoom, Joseph H. 

Vasen. Benjamin G 

Volk, Cornelius G 



25 

83 

.85 

50 



Walsh, James J 28 

Walton, H. P 76 

Warfield, William S 9 

Wells, George 22 

AA>ems, Jesse 46 

Weems. Frank H 47 

Weems, Milton K 47 

Whipple, Dr. A. A 102 

Whipple. Dr. Henry L Ill 

WhitHeld, Byrom 87 

Williamson, Charles H 34 

Williamson, Henry A 16 

Wilson. George H 121 

Wilson, Dr. I. T 99 

Wisdom, John R 24 



Young. Elijah D. 



5S 



INDEX-RESIDENCES. 



Page. 

Botsford. Edmund M 52 

Bull. Charles H 134 

Bull, Lorenzo T2 

Carter, Judge Joseph N ffi 

Cassidy. J. W 42 

Castle. Chauncey H 73 

Duker. William T 52 

Fick, William C IS 

Plynn, John J 90 

Menke. Frederick W 16 



Page. 

MacMurray, James E 73 

Newcomb, Richard F 18 

Parker, Edward J 96 

Parkhurst, George C 52 

Parkhurst, Jonathan 73 

Poling, Theodore C 42 

Ricker. George E 73 

Stahl, George H 18 

AVarfield, William S 18 

Wells. George 42 

Williamson. Henry A 52 



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